. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EU5IICHTIS. 339 Hah. SiKHiM, Tongio, 10,000 feet. £Ic^). 32 millim. This species is unknown to me. 2503. Eumichtis protea. Nodna j>rotea, Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (177fi); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. l-'iO. f. 6 (1790); Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. !, f. 386(1792); Hiibn. Eur. Schuiett., Noct. f. 406; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 259, pi. 89. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. Noctiia scladonm, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 103 (1794); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Hau?t. iii. p. 33. Head and thorax olive-green mixed with black to grej^ and
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EU5IICHTIS. 339 Hah. SiKHiM, Tongio, 10,000 feet. £Ic^). 32 millim. This species is unknown to me. 2503. Eumichtis protea. Nodna j>rotea, Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (177fi); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. l-'iO. f. 6 (1790); Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. !, f. 386(1792); Hiibn. Eur. Schuiett., Noct. f. 406; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 259, pi. 89. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. Noctiia scladonm, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 103 (1794); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Hau?t. iii. p. 33. Head and thorax olive-green mixed with black to grej^ and rufous mixed with black; irons with black bar ; tegulae with medial black line and black tips; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen gre3'ish thickly irrorated with black, the base paler. Fore wing olive- green to grey irrorated with black and suffused in places with rufous or fuscous ; a double subbasal line from costa to submediau fold. Fig. 109.—Eumichtis protea, ^. \. angled inwards in cell; a double oblique irregularl3'-waved ante- medial line; claviform broad, defined by black and with a pale bidentate mark beyond it and black streak from its lower extremity to the postmedial line; orbicular and reniform greenish or grey- white usually defined by black and irrorated with black, the former rather oblique elliptical, the latter broad and sometimes tinged with rufous ; an indistinct irregular medial line; postmedial line in- distinctly double, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish and often with some whitish before it and defined by black on outer side at middle and in submedian interspace, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; a terminal series of small black lunulas. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous especially on the veins and terminal area ; an indistinct postmedial line and greyish subterminal line bent outwards at vein 2. Under- side grey irrorated with brown, both
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