. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 470 NOCTTJIDiE. or dark brown; hair on pectus dark brown : abdomen ochreons with dark bands or almost wholly suffused with dark brown. Fore wing varying from pale grey-brown to bright rufous or dark purple- brown suffused with grey and irrorated with brown, the veins whitish ; subbasal line very indistinct, double, from costa to sub- median fold with black point beyond it in cell; antemedial line double, rufous filled in with pale colour or greyish, slightly angled outwards below costa aud inwards in cell, then
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 470 NOCTTJIDiE. or dark brown; hair on pectus dark brown : abdomen ochreons with dark bands or almost wholly suffused with dark brown. Fore wing varying from pale grey-brown to bright rufous or dark purple- brown suffused with grey and irrorated with brown, the veins whitish ; subbasal line very indistinct, double, from costa to sub- median fold with black point beyond it in cell; antemedial line double, rufous filled in with pale colour or greyish, slightly angled outwards below costa aud inwards in cell, then obliquely excurved; orbicular and reniform moderate with dark brown centres and pale annuli slightly defined by brown ; a diffused rufous medial line. Fig. 161.— Omiohaloscelis liinosa, (^. \. oblique from costa to median nervure, then slightly waved ; post- medial line double filled in with pale colour or greyish, bent out- wards below costa aud incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area sometimes with the interspaces suffused with dark brown ; sub- terminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by two dentate black spots below costa, then by a series of small spots or points, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a series of slight points just before termen ; cilia intersected with dark brown. Hind wing white more or less irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown, a blackish discoidal lunule and diffused maculate subterminal band, sometimes mostly suffused with fuscous ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a large discoidal spot, in- distinct curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Eah. Britain {Barrett^, Leech Coll; Peance, Sand and Prey Colls. ; Spain. Castile, Aragon; Algeria. Exp. 31-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 348, pi. 228. f. 2. Yellow-broM-n or green; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale or whitish; spiracular line whitish, brown-edged above; tubercles large, black. Food-plants, G
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