. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 224 NOCTUID^. median nervure ; traces of a waved medial line; postmedial line double filled in with white, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; veins 3, 4, 6, 7 with. Fig. 36.—Onychestra siccanorum, (^. dark streaks usually defined by white but not indenting the white subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at submedian fold, with a series of small dentate dark marks before it at middle; a terminal series of small dark lunules; cilia chequered brown and whi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 224 NOCTUID^. median nervure ; traces of a waved medial line; postmedial line double filled in with white, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; veins 3, 4, 6, 7 with. Fig. 36.—Onychestra siccanorum, (^. dark streaks usually defined by white but not indenting the white subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at submedian fold, with a series of small dentate dark marks before it at middle; a terminal series of small dark lunules; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing white with an ochreous tinge, the veins towards termen with slight dark streaks, a fine terminal line; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hub. S. Russia, Sarepta {Christoph), 3 c? ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, 2 d • Exp. 30 millim. Genus PRONOTESTEA, nov. Type, P. dlenides. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, fringed with hair; frons with truncate conical promiueuce with vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it, produced to a point in front; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male serrate and fasciculated ; thorax clothed with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; fore tarsi with the joints shortened and with curved claw- like spines on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest on 1st segment. Fore wing with veins ?> and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of disco- cellulars; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 1443. Pronotestra silenides. Mamestra silenides, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 273, pi. ix. f. 14 (1894); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 160. S. Head ochreous, the frons with blackish bar above ; thorax grey-white mixed with rufous, the patagia with some black scales a
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