. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BAILEl'A. 447 6796. Baileya dormitans. Leptina dormitans, Guen. Noct. i. p. 15 (1852); Smitb, Ccat. Noct. N. Am. p. 30. Leptina latebricola, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 57 (1863). Head and thorax grey-brown with some black scales, the tegulse slightly tipped with black; pectus, legs, and abdomen white mixed with brown, the fore tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing brown, the medial area and apex tinged with lilacine grey; an oblique patch from base of eosta to inner margin before middle defined on outer side by
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BAILEl'A. 447 6796. Baileya dormitans. Leptina dormitans, Guen. Noct. i. p. 15 (1852); Smitb, Ccat. Noct. N. Am. p. 30. Leptina latebricola, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 57 (1863). Head and thorax grey-brown with some black scales, the tegulse slightly tipped with black; pectus, legs, and abdomen white mixed with brown, the fore tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing brown, the medial area and apex tinged with lilacine grey; an oblique patch from base of eosta to inner margin before middle defined on outer side by black and also sometimes slightly by white; traces of a dark antemedial line, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards to the basal patch ; a black discoidal point and traces of a dark annulus representing the reni- form ; postmedial line dark defined on outer side by grey, strongly. Fig. 160.—Baileya dormitans, S • \- bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, at vein 4 bent inwards to below end of cell and again bent outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by black-brown, faintly at middle, and with oblique black-brown streaks beyond it above and below vein 7, incurved from costa to vein 5 below which it is angled inwards, excurved and waved at middle, bent inwards and dentate below vein 2; a terminal series of dark striae slightly defined on inner side by whitish. Hind wing whitish almost entirely suffused with brown, a fine brown terminal line ; the under- side white irrorated with brown, a slight dark diseoidal lunule and diffused postmedial and subterminal shades with dark streaks on the veins. Hah. Canada ; , Maine, Kew York, 2 cJ, 1 § ,' Trenton Falls {Douhleday), 2 c? type, Evans Center (Grote), 2 c?, Ehode I., New Jersey, Wisconsin. Exj). 32-36 millim. *6797. Baileya levitans. (Plate CLXXXYI. fig. 12.) Leptina levitans, Smith, J. Ent. Soc. siv. p. 9 (1905). 5 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey;
Size: 2917px × 857px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmoths, bookyear1898