. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 246 NOCTUID^. distinct crest, themetathorax with spreading crest; tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the term en obHquely curved and not creuulate; 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 just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only, A. Hind wing yellow
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 246 NOCTUID^. distinct crest, themetathorax with spreading crest; tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the term en obHquely curved and not creuulate; 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 just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only, A. Hind wing yellowish white. a. Pore wing without conical brown spot on middle of inner margin ohtusa. h. Pore wing with conical brown spot on middle of inner margin perflava. B. Hind wing dark brown. a. Pore wing bright yellow demo. h. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous procula. c. Pore wing deep rufous umhria. 4625. Stiriodes oMusa. Mefxypoiiia ohtusa, Aussereur. Schmett. p. 68, f. 210 (1853); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 316. Metoponia obtusida, Zell. Verb, Ges. Wien, xxiii. p. 204, pi. 3. f. 2 (1873). Head and tegiilae rufous; thorax yellow, rufous in front and behind ; pectus and legs yellow suffused with rufous ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous. Tore wing bright yellow tinged with rufous except on terminal area, the base of costal area rufous; a rufous antemedial spot on costa and dark point in submedian fold ; a rather triangular red-brown spot on middle of costa extending into upper part of cell, an oblique red-brown bar from lower angle of cell to submedian fold and a spot on inner margin ; postmediid line represented by a small red-brown spot on costa, a point further. Pig. 100.—Stiriodes ohtusa, ^J. from base in discal fold and a point in submedian fold; a sub- terminal red-brown spot on costa and a series of small spots from discal fold to inner margin, excurved at vein 4. Hind wing ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown ; traces of a dift'used
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