. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. DANTONA. 313 from near augle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discooellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base oulj. 4734. Dantona stillata. Nonagria stillata, i. p. 107 (1852). Nonayria discei-pia, Wlk. xi. 712 (1857). Luphygma pnnclifinis, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). Laphygma conqresm, Wlk. xv. 1()77 (1858). Dantona busalis, Wlk. xix. 1021 (1859)
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. DANTONA. 313 from near augle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discooellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base oulj. 4734. Dantona stillata. Nonagria stillata, i. p. 107 (1852). Nonayria discei-pia, Wlk. xi. 712 (1857). Luphygma pnnclifinis, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). Laphygma conqresm, Wlk. xv. 1()77 (1858). Dantona busalis, Wlk. xix. 1021 (1859). Nonagria inferna, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Miia. xxx. p. 101 (1906). S. Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with some grey ; palpi whitish tit tips; antennae whitish; pectus and legs greyer; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown suffused with glossy grey and slightly irrorated with black ; a black streak below base of cell; a black point in middle of cell and a slight black discoidal lunule with white point at lower angle of cell with short black streak before it above median nervure; post- medial line represented by a series of small dentate black marks, oblique from costa before apex to submedian fold, then bent inwards above inner margin ; a terminal series of small black luuules. Hind wing white tinged with reddish brown at apex or almost entirely suffused with brown ; a fine dark terminal line;. Y\g. 135. —-Dantona stillata, c?. {. cilia white tinged with brown at apex ; the underside with the costal area suffused with reddish brown, the terminal area irrorated with brown. 5 . Hind wing entirely suffused with fuscous brown. Ab. 1. punciijims. Head, thorax, and fore wing much browner and less fuscous. Ab. 2. Fore wing with whitish streak in discal fold from orbicular to postmedial line ; hind wing more uniformly suffused with brown in male. Ab. 3. inferna. Eore wing with slight black streak in discal fold from orbicular to postmedial line and with th
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