. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 145 terminal series of slight brown lunulas aud fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the interspaces slightly paler except on terminal area; cilia ochreous white, brown at base towards apex. Underside of fore wing with whitish patch on disk enclosing a diffused round brown discoidal patch ; hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area brown. Ab. 1. Eore wing with white spot between orbicular and reniform. Ab. 2. fernif/inea. Fore wing with the inner area grej^er. Ab. 3. quaclris


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 145 terminal series of slight brown lunulas aud fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the interspaces slightly paler except on terminal area; cilia ochreous white, brown at base towards apex. Underside of fore wing with whitish patch on disk enclosing a diffused round brown discoidal patch ; hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area brown. Ab. 1. Eore wing with white spot between orbicular and reniform. Ab. 2. fernif/inea. Fore wing with the inner area grej^er. Ab. 3. quaclristrigata. Fore wing greyer with a diffused black fascia below median nervure to near end of cell, a black shade beyond medial part of postmedial line, and the subterminal line defined on inner side by Fig. 49.— Odontodes aleuca, (^. \. Ab. 4, Similar but fore wing with the inner area white to post- medial line, the subterminal line defined on outer side by white except towards apex. Ab. 5. Fore wing suffused with fuscous except the terminal area. Ab. 6. Fore wing suffused with fuscous except the inner and terminal areas which are pale reddish brown. Ab. 7. suhfasciata. Similar, but fore wing with the lines on the brown area defined by whitish. Ab. 8. Similar, but fore wing with the costal half suffused with fuscous, the markings of the quadristrijata form and the white spot of ab. 1. Ab. 9. Fore wing with velvety black suffusion on inner side of the outer antemedial line. Ab. 10. edemoides. Fore wing,with whitish suffusion beyond tho outer antemedial line and diifused dentate black marks before tho subterminal line. Ab. 11. Fore wing with the inner antemedial line defined by white on inner side, the outer on outer side, the postmedial line filled in with white on inner area, and the subterminal line defined on outer side by white except towards apex. Ab. 12. Fore wing with the basal area much redder, the medial area suffused with bluish white except towards cosla,


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