. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EtrSTEOTIA. o67 Sect. II. Antennae of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated. A. Palpi with the 3rd joint as long a8 the 2nd and reaching far above vertex of head. 5850. Eustrotia chuza. Pseudina chioza, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 494, pi. 95 f 13 (1898). 5 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with some white and fuscous, the vertex of head and base of tegulse whiter, the latter with slight black medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with pinkish; abdomen ochreous white suftused with brown, the basal crest tippe
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EtrSTEOTIA. o67 Sect. II. Antennae of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated. A. Palpi with the 3rd joint as long a8 the 2nd and reaching far above vertex of head. 5850. Eustrotia chuza. Pseudina chioza, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 494, pi. 95 f 13 (1898). 5 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with some white and fuscous, the vertex of head and base of tegulse whiter, the latter with slight black medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with pinkish; abdomen ochreous white suftused with brown, the basal crest tipped with black, the ventral surface paler. Pore wing red- brown suffused with purplish grej'; subbasal line represented bj- a whitish striga from costa, a black point in cell, and two obliquely- placed black points below the cell, some black suffusion beyond it below costa; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with whitish, sinuous, angled outwards above inner margin; claviform defined by black at extremity; orbicular and reniforra defined by black, the former round with some pale rufous on its inner edge,. Fig. 159.—Eustrotia chuza, cJ. \. the latter oblique elliptical with some pale rufous on its inner edge, extending to well below the cell; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to reniform, waved from cell to inner margin; post- medial line double at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to whitish and black points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side bv brown suffusion, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle and crossed by black streaks from termen below veins 8 and 7; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing pale suffused with red-brown, especially on terminal area ; a fine dark terminal line; the underside ochreous white, the costal area suffused with purplish pink, traces of a curved postmedial line. Hah. M
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