. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 568 NOCTUID^E, lirown discoidal lunule, crenulate ^lostmedial line, indistinct diffused subterminal shade, and terminal series of small lunules. Hab. Natal, Karkloof {Marshall), 1 (S tyjje. Exp. 32 millim. b. {E'liherrhicMa). Mid tibiee and 1st joint of tarsi in both sexes with large tufts of scales and hair, the hind tibiseand 1st joint of tarsi moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with very' large crest on 3rd segment; male with a large medial ventral corneous hook on preanal segment projecting backwards and
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 568 NOCTUID^E, lirown discoidal lunule, crenulate ^lostmedial line, indistinct diffused subterminal shade, and terminal series of small lunules. Hab. Natal, Karkloof {Marshall), 1 (S tyjje. Exp. 32 millim. b. {E'liherrhicMa). Mid tibiee and 1st joint of tarsi in both sexes with large tufts of scales and hair, the hind tibiseand 1st joint of tarsi moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with very' large crest on 3rd segment; male with a large medial ventral corneous hook on preanal segment projecting backwards and covered with hair. 3433. Eriopus moUissima. Eriopus moUisifima, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 294 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 308. Erasiria rubicunda, Wlk. xii. 808 (1857). Head and thorax hriffht rufous mixed with some yellow and dark hrown ; frons with the lower part white and with black lateral bars; tegulse whitish at tips ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with fuscous leaving white segmental lines, the crests rufous and dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous suffused and irrorated with brown on costal half of basal area, medial and terminal areas ; a slight whitish mark at base ; subbasal line yellowish defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line. Fig. 136.—Eriopus moUissima, S- \- double, blackish filled in with rufous, excurved below cell and bent inwards to inner margin, an oblique minutely waved black line before it from submedian fold to inner margin ; claviform defined by fjlack ; orbicular with black centre and whitish annulus defined by black, some silver on its lower edge, round ; reniform with pale rufous centre slightly defined by black and silvery white annulus defined by black,, the annulus broad except on outer side where it is reduced to points, the lower extremity rather produced; a slight incurved dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- m
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