. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BALSA. 455 palpi and frons blackish ; a black bar between antennae which are pale rufous ; a black line at middle of tegulse and across base of patagia which have black scales near their upper edge ; pro thoracic crest blackish ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing bluish white suffused with brown except on costal area, the veins of terminal half finely streaked with black; subbasal line curved, black, from costa to median ner
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BALSA. 455 palpi and frons blackish ; a black bar between antennae which are pale rufous ; a black line at middle of tegulse and across base of patagia which have black scales near their upper edge ; pro thoracic crest blackish ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing bluish white suffused with brown except on costal area, the veins of terminal half finely streaked with black; subbasal line curved, black, from costa to median nervure ; ante- medial line blackish slightly defined by whitish on inner side, incurved in cell, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbicular represented by a black point on a faint whitish mark, the reniform by an obliquely curved black discoidal line connected with an oblique wedge-shaped black mark from costa with whitish striga on it; a faint sinuous brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 6 where it is acutely angled, angled inwards in discal fold, outwards on veins 4, 3, then. Fig. 128.—Balsa malana, J', t- strongly incurved and bent outwards at vein 1, some minute streaks beyond it on costa; subterminal line very in- distinct, whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown ; cilia white with a faint red-brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal lunule and faint curved post- medial line. Hah. Canada ; , Eastern and Central States, Massa- chusetts, Beverley {Packard), IS, 3$, jSTew York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 c?, 3 $, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh {Engel), 1 $, Wis- consin, Georgia, Kansas [Snoiv), 2 $ ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 5, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake {Pryer), 1 cJ , 3 5 . Ex_p. 28-34 millim. Larva. Saunders, Ins. Inj. Fruits, p. 101. Pale green with five w
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