. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ' ' - KOCTUID^. Orthosia Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. .m3, pi. 28. ff. 2a-G (1836). ^'ocfua saj> dorsally irrorated \\itli fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to subraedian fold ; antemcdial line double, waved, the inner line indistinct, with black and white points before it on the veins; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli slightly defined by black, the former rounded, the latter constricted at middle, its lower part filled in with blackish
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ' ' - KOCTUID^. Orthosia Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. .m3, pi. 28. ff. 2a-G (1836). ^'ocfua saj> dorsally irrorated \\itli fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to subraedian fold ; antemcdial line double, waved, the inner line indistinct, with black and white points before it on the veins; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli slightly defined by black, the former rounded, the latter constricted at middle, its lower part filled in with blackish ; a rather diffused medial line angled out- wards to lower angle of cell; postmcdial line double, bent outwards. Fig. lG2.âAmai/ics rutieilla, J. \. below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line pale defined on inner side by a broAvnish bar from costa, thou by a series of black points on the veins, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in submedian fold; a terminal series of black points connected by a slight waved line; cilia brown with slight pale line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous grey with a fuscous line through them : the underside grey-white irrorated Avith fuscous, a black discoidal lunulc, strong curved postmedial line and waved terminal line. Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour chestnut-red. Hah. , Sand Coll.; Belgium ; Holl.\xd ; Germanv, ZcUer, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Hungary ; (Switzer- land ; Spain ; Corsica ; Italy ; Dalmatia ; Asia Minor, Pontws; Syria. £^7*. 28-34 millim. Larva. Kirbr, Eutt. & Mollis Eur. p. 181 : Ilffin. Kaup. p. IK). Brown with dark zigzag markings; head black. Food-plant, Oak, first attacking the buds. Skct. ILâAntennii; of male inimitely serrate with fasciculate cilia. A. {Hrferchwrpha). Wings of reduced : bind wing with the apex produced and acute, the teruien e
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