. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PETRINIA. 323 Genus PETRINIA. Type. rcfrinia, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soo. Glasg. i. p. .347 (1809) l/ynvsa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; anteniu'c of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibite nearly smoothly scaled ; ab- domen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen strongly c
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PETRINIA. 323 Genus PETRINIA. Type. rcfrinia, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soo. Glasg. i. p. .347 (1809) l/ynvsa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; anteniu'c of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibite nearly smoothly scaled ; ab- domen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen strongly curved and not cronulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of ceil; (> from below upj^er angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing witli the cell near base only. 0628. Petrinia lignosa. Peirinia lignosa, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist, Soc. Glasg. i. p. 348 (1869). S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous largely mixed with black-brown, the tcgulae with black line near tips, the patagia with oblique black bars near tips, the tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing ochreous siiflfuscd with rufous and irrorated with black on basal half, the costa and apical area black-brown mixed with some grey; an oblique dark shade from subcostal nervure before middle to inner margin near base, defined above by a curved grey streak with fine black streak above it, its outer edge angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; a slight black streak below costa from this antemedial shade to beyond middle where it is curved round and becomes the faint minutely dentate postmedial line, slightly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and double. Fig. 117.—rctrlnia lignosa, <^. \. filled in with whitish on inner area; a blackish line from costa beyond middle slightly defined by whitish on outer side and on inner side also below costa and at lower extremity, exc
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