. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. RCRTPTAXTA. 465 1811. Scriptania nordenscjoldi. Mamesfra nordenscjoldi, Staud. Hambvirg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 68, f. 7 (1899). Head and thorax white mixed with black ; tegulas and patagia with black line near edges ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdo- men fuscous grey. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and suffused with fuscous, the end of cell aiid area beyond and below it and the terminal area except towards apex more strongly suffused; subbasal line represented by oblique double black striae from costa and cell fi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. RCRTPTAXTA. 465 1811. Scriptania nordenscjoldi. Mamesfra nordenscjoldi, Staud. Hambvirg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 68, f. 7 (1899). Head and thorax white mixed with black ; tegulas and patagia with black line near edges ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdo- men fuscous grey. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and suffused with fuscous, the end of cell aiid area beyond and below it and the terminal area except towards apex more strongly suffused; subbasal line represented by oblique double black striae from costa and cell filled in with white; antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, waved, angled strongly outwards above inner margin ; claviform large, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform grey with whitish annuli defined by black, the former irregularly rounded, the latter angled inwards on median nervure; traces of a medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points on costa beyond it; veins 7, 6, 4, 3 defined by whitish, indenting the sub- terminal line, which is represented by a series of small white spots on dentate black marks, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3; the apex and a terminal line grey; cilia fuscous and grey. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia white at tips; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Bah. Patagonian Andes, Val de Lago Blanco, 4 c? > 1 ?, Punta Arenas. Exp. 36 millim. *1812. Scriptania michaelseni. Agrofis michcBheni, Staud. Hamburg. Magalhaens. iv. p. 60, f. 13 (1899). S . Head and tegulae dark brown mixed with grey ; patagia and thorax grey with seven brown stripes; abdomen with the basal. half grey, the terminal half red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey- brown, the veins streaked with whitish ; black patches in interspaces of basal area, traversed by the white su
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