. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PERIGRAPHA. 405 area paler ; antemedial line double, evenly oblique, fuscous ; clavi- form absent; orbicular and reniforra large, pale grey defined by fuscous, the former elliptical, touching below the latter, which is tinged with red; an indistinct medial shade ; postmedial line double, fuscous, interrupted, indistinct, excurved beyond cell, the medial part of postmedial area much paler ; subterminal line represented by some black irroration; a series of blackish terminal lunules. Hind wing fuscous ; the underside fuscous br
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PERIGRAPHA. 405 area paler ; antemedial line double, evenly oblique, fuscous ; clavi- form absent; orbicular and reniforra large, pale grey defined by fuscous, the former elliptical, touching below the latter, which is tinged with red; an indistinct medial shade ; postmedial line double, fuscous, interrupted, indistinct, excurved beyond cell, the medial part of postmedial area much paler ; subterminal line represented by some black irroration; a series of blackish terminal lunules. Hind wing fuscous ; the underside fuscous brown with some pale irroration, a diseoidal spot and postmedial line. Hah. , California, Sierra Nevada. Exp. 30 millim. This species is unknown to me. Sect. II. {Acerm). Auteuiijs of male bipectinate, the apex serrate ; of female minutely serrate. A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform confluent normalis. B. Fore wing with the orbicular and renitbrm not confluent. a. Fore wing with the orbicular present pulchella. b. Fore wing with the orbicular absent. a\ Fore wing with the postmedial area darker than ground-colour terminata. 6\ Fore wing with the jjostmedial area concolorous pectinata. 1727. Perigrapha normalis. Acerra normalis, Grote, Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 162 (1894) ; id Check List Noct. pi. f. 4; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 207. Head and thorax clothed with hair only, purplish brown mixed with grey; sides of palpi and frons dark brown; teguloe with brown line at tips; abdomen grey-brown irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing grey suffused with purple-brown and irrorated. Fig. lU'J.—Ferigrajjha uonnalis, (^. \. with black; a slightly curved subbasal black line from cell to submcdian fold ; antemedial lino indistinct, very oblique from costa to vein 1 near postmedial line, then angled inwards; orbicular and reniform very large, forming a V Avith very broad arms and extending to below cell, where it is broadly truncate, defined by whitish lines and by
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