. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 NOCTTJID.^. line dark and incurved below the cell ; subterminal line not defined ; the terminal area irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of distinct black lunules : cilia brown intersected with whitish. Hind wing blackish with a broad yellowish white medial band with the large blackish discoidal lunula on it. Underside of fore wing mottled blackish and yellow with a distinct broad postmedial band; hind wing pale yellowish with large black discoidal spot and narrow interrupted irregular subterminal band; both wings wi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 NOCTTJID.^. line dark and incurved below the cell ; subterminal line not defined ; the terminal area irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of distinct black lunules : cilia brown intersected with whitish. Hind wing blackish with a broad yellowish white medial band with the large blackish discoidal lunula on it. Underside of fore wing mottled blackish and yellow with a distinct broad postmedial band; hind wing pale yellowish with large black discoidal spot and narrow interrupted irregular subterminal band; both wings with t^irminal series of black stria?. Hah. , Louisiana, Sabine Parish. Exp. 27 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. J. B. Smith. 4979. Pseudacontia crustaria. TaracliR crustaria, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 70; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 273. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white and some blackish scales; palpi at base and pectus white : tibiae and tarsi yellow- brown ringed with white ; abdomen white with brownish segmental bands. Fore wing red-brown mixed with some white and black scales, the medial and postmedial areas tinged with bluish white except towards costa ; subbasal line represented by black striae from costa and cell defined by black scales ; a broad antemedial white band diffused on outer side; orbicular and reniform very small, black defined by white, the former round ; a postmedial white band, excurved from below costa to vein 5, then incurved, some. Fig. 234.—J'scudacontia crustaria, J. white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, whitish, bent outwards below vein 7 and at middle where there is some black suff'usiou before it; a terminal series of black striae; cilia red-brown mixed with white and with a blackish line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown slightly irrorated with whitish ; a faint dark diff'used medial line defined by whitish on outer side; a fine dark terminal
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