. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. .^^' Fig. 5.—Cheligalca scoparlm, S • \- whitish. Fore wing pale brown ; the basal costal area suffused with white ; the subbasal line represented by dark striae from costa and cell; antemedial line double, waved, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; the inner medial area suffused with white; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with the annulus indistinct; a diffused black medial shade from costa to median nervure, then a slight waved line ; p
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. .^^' Fig. 5.—Cheligalca scoparlm, S • \- whitish. Fore wing pale brown ; the basal costal area suffused with white ; the subbasal line represented by dark striae from costa and cell; antemedial line double, waved, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; the inner medial area suffused with white; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with the annulus indistinct; a diffused black medial shade from costa to median nervure, then a slight waved line ; postmedial line M'aved, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, with slight black streak beyond it above vein 4 ; subterminal line diflused whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and middle with slight black streaks before it below costa and beyond it below vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black lunules with some whitish before them. Hind wing yellowish, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown. Hah. AusTEiA, Zeller, Prey and Leech Colls.; Hijngaey ; Styeia, Leech Coll.; S. Russia; Aemenia ; W. Siberia?; E. Siberia, Amurland, Crowley Coll. Exp. 32-40 millim. Larva. Kirby, Bntt. and Moths Enr. p. 259. lleddish brown or brownish green ; dorsal line pale; oblique lateral pale red streaks ; a broad white lateral fascia. Food-plant, Artemisia sco^jaria. Genus CUCULLIA. Type. Cucullia, Scbi-ank, Faun. Boica, ii. (2) p. 157 (1802) artcmisim. Eudercea, Iliibn. Verz. p. 245 (1827) aster is. Evcalimia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 245 (1827) gnaphaUi. (JcMcenia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 246 (1827) uonhratica. Arqyrifis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 247 (1827) artemisix. Ilancora, Smith, Ent. News. iii. p. 253 (1892); id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 83 (1894) strigata. Trihoiiophora, Hiibn. Tent, ined , , umbratica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, oblique, fringed with hair on both sides; frons with slight rounded prominence; eyes large, rounded; antenna? typically almost simple in both sexes
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