. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 3Gl) i'.")3;{. Antitype polymita. Koclua polifoiita, Linn. Fiiim. Siiec. p. 3121 \\~(\\); E.»p. Schinctt. iv. pi. 170. f. 4; Frr. Neiie Beitr. iii. pi. 'H'A ; iJuj). Lip. I-'r. vi. p. 417, pi. O'J. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. ]>. 17'.'. Noctua ridens, Iliiltn. Kur. Sebiiiett., Ifoct. f. liU (1827). cf. Head and thorax olivc-preeii with whitish; tegula' •with slight dark medial line ; patagia edged with white in front and above: crests on pro-and metathorax ti])ped with white ; tibia? and tarsi ringed
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 3Gl) i'.")3;{. Antitype polymita. Koclua polifoiita, Linn. Fiiim. Siiec. p. 3121 \\~(\\); E.»p. Schinctt. iv. pi. 170. f. 4; Frr. Neiie Beitr. iii. pi. 'H'A ; iJuj). Lip. I-'r. vi. p. 417, pi. O'J. f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. ]>. 17'.'. Noctua ridens, Iliiltn. Kur. Sebiiiett., Ifoct. f. liU (1827). cf. Head and thorax olivc-preeii with whitish; tegula' •with slight dark medial line ; patagia edged with white in front and above: crests on pro-and metathorax ti])ped with white ; tibia? and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with olive-green. Fore wing olive-green irrorated with white ; a small white-tipped tuft of scales at base ; subbasal line double filled in with white, angled inwards in cell and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line defined b}- white on inner side, oblique, waved, angled outwards below cost a and above inner margin ; claviform defined by black below and at extremity ; orbicular and renifoim with incomplete^. Fig. 119.—Aiiiitypex>olymita, ^. \. white annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with some white in centre and irregular outline: a dentate medial line angled outward on median nervure, then oblique; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to l)lack points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some Avhite points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line dentate, white defined by small dentate black marks on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and incurved in submedian interspace: a terminal series of small black lunulcs ; cilia chccjuered yellowish white and blackish. Hind wing white: the veins tinged with fuscous: a diffused brownish siibterminal band, somewhat dentate at middle ; a waved black terminal line : cilia tinged with brown from apex to vein '2 ; the underside w ith the costal area irrorated with brown, a small disc
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