. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 628 NOCTUID^. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. lOfi; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 10, pi. 138. f. 1. Pale greenish or ochrcous, black-dotted ; dorsal line pale, partly edged with short dark marks; two blackish spots on somite 12 ; sometimes a lateral series of oblique darker marks ; spiracular line pale; head pale with dark markings. Food-plants : Primida, Stellaria, Hubus, etc. 9-5, 1080. Triphsena interjecta. NoctiM interjecta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. pi. 23. f. 107 (1827); Scbmett. Eur. ii. p. 328 ; Godt. L6


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 628 NOCTUID^. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. lOfi; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 10, pi. 138. f. 1. Pale greenish or ochrcous, black-dotted ; dorsal line pale, partly edged with short dark marks; two blackish spots on somite 12 ; sometimes a lateral series of oblique darker marks ; spiracular line pale; head pale with dark markings. Food-plants : Primida, Stellaria, Hubus, etc. 9-5, 1080. Triphsena interjecta. NoctiM interjecta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. pi. 23. f. 107 (1827); Scbmett. Eur. ii. p. 328 ; Godt. L6p. Fr. v. p. 154, pi. 59. f. 1 ; Stepb. III. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 105. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. Head and thorax yellow-brown or red-brown ; palpi and legs grey-brown irrorated with white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the hair at sides, anal tuft, and ventral surface pinkish. Fore wing yellow-brown or reddish brown, the markings often almost obsolete ; double, waved, subbasal and ante- medial lines, the latter excurved below cell; orbicular and reniform faintly defined bj' fuscous ; an indistinct medial shade; the post- medial line waved, oblique towards costa, excurved at median. .Fig. 114.— Triphcena interjecta, cJ. \. nerviiles, then incurved, and with some dark points beyond it on the veins ; a diffused subterminal shade slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below 'vein 4; a terminal line and line through the cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the cell, costal and inner areas suffused with fuscous brown ; a slight discoidal lunule; a broad black terminal band expanding on apical area and with sinuous inner edge ; the termen and cilia yellow, with some fuscous on the latter towards apex. Underside of fore wing fuscous, with the costal and terminal areas brownish ochreous; hind wing with the costal area pinkish. Hah. Britain ; France ; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Hungary, Frey Coll.; Spain ; Corsica ; Italy ; Dalmatia. Exp. 36 millim.


Size: 3135px × 797px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectmoths, bookyear1913