. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 36 . NocrrTDiG. A. Fore wing with medial black patch on costa diphteroides. B. Fore wing without medial black patch on costa vesta. 3609. Leuconycta diphteroides. Microccelia diphteroides, Gueu. Noct. i. p. 34, pi. 3. f. 7 (1852); Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 78, pi. 2. f. 2; id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 69; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 48. Microccelia oMiterata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Son. Phil, iii. p. 79 (1864); id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 70. Head and thorax pale green mixed with whi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 36 . NocrrTDiG. A. Fore wing with medial black patch on costa diphteroides. B. Fore wing without medial black patch on costa vesta. 3609. Leuconycta diphteroides. Microccelia diphteroides, Gueu. Noct. i. p. 34, pi. 3. f. 7 (1852); Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 78, pi. 2. f. 2; id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 69; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 48. Microccelia oMiterata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Son. Phil, iii. p. 79 (1864); id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 70. Head and thorax pale green mixed with white, the head with some brown scales ; palpi ochreous banded with brown ; antennae brown; tegulse edged with brown; prothoracic crest red-brown at base ; patagia and metathoracic crests tipped with black ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with ochreous, the tibiae and tarsi dark brown, the latter ringed with white; abdomen white irrorated with black, the ventral surface tinged with ochreous. Fore wing very pale green irrorated with white ; subbasal line double, waved, black, interrupted below costa and above inner margin, a triangular black spot beyond it on costa; antemedial line double, black, oblique, waved, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniforra with white aunuli defined by black, the former elliptical, the latter open above, its centre defined by blackish on outer side and below, a black fascia. Fig. 8.—Leuconycta diphteroides, cJ. t- between them above median nervure, with a blackish shade above it from costa ; a slight waved line from below reniform to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below costa, then lunulate and with black points beyond it on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some black and white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, white, defined on inner side by dentate black marks, waved, incurved at discal and sub- median folds ; a terminal series of
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