. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 432 NOCTUID^. Genus EPIGL^A. Type. Epiglsa, Grote, S. Geog. Geol. ir. p. 181 (1878)... clcdwa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porreet to just beyond the large frontal tuft, fringed with long hair below, the 3rd joint short; frons smooth; eyes laro-e, rounded ; antennae somewhat laminate and ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the vertex of head with large crest, the tegnl^e produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with large triangular crest; pectus with long hair ; abd
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 432 NOCTUID^. Genus EPIGL^A. Type. Epiglsa, Grote, S. Geog. Geol. ir. p. 181 (1878)... clcdwa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porreet to just beyond the large frontal tuft, fringed with long hair below, the 3rd joint short; frons smooth; eyes laro-e, rounded ; antennae somewhat laminate and ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the vertex of head with large crest, the tegnl^e produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with large triangular crest; pectus with long hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the costa arched, the apex produced and acute, the termen excurved at middle and oblique towards tornus; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines dark. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate and produced to dark points on the veins decliva. h. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate apiata. E. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines whitish contracta. 2636. Epiglsea decliva. Orthosia decliva, Grote, 6th Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 30 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 222. Glcea deleta, Grote, Psyche, ii. p. 80 (1877). (S. Head and thorax bright rufous; antennae with the shaft "white towards base ; abdomen pale rufous, greyish at base. Eore wing rufous suffused with greyish and with slight dark irroration; an indistinct curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, obliquely curved, rather irregularly ^aved; orbicular and reuiform large, slightly defined by whitish,. Fig. 150.—EpiglcBa decliva, S. \. the former oblique e
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