. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 2S2 ISrOCTTTID^. reniform constricted at middle, defined by black and its centre by purple-brown, some blackish suffusion between it and postmedial line, which is very indistinct, dentate and produced to streaks on the veins, obsolete towards costa and angled inwards in submedian fold; some white points on costa towards apex; a prominent black streak above vein 4 to the subterminal line, which is pale defined by red-brown suff'usion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and. Fig. 82.—Xylina vetusta, (^. \. d
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 2S2 ISrOCTTTID^. reniform constricted at middle, defined by black and its centre by purple-brown, some blackish suffusion between it and postmedial line, which is very indistinct, dentate and produced to streaks on the veins, obsolete towards costa and angled inwards in submedian fold; some white points on costa towards apex; a prominent black streak above vein 4 to the subterminal line, which is pale defined by red-brown suff'usion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and. Fig. 82.—Xylina vetusta, (^. \. dentate nearly to termen at veins 4, 3; terminal area sufi^used with red-brown except at apex : a series of black points just before termen : cilia chequered ochreous or greyish and black. Hind wing ochreous uniformly sufl^used with red-brown ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside pale ochreous, the costal and terminal areas slightly tinged with brown, a black discoidal lunule and oblique minutely waved brown postmedial line. Hah. Bkitain, Leech Coll.; Fraj^ce ; Geeaiain^y, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria; Hungary; Switzerland; ?Spain; N. Ltaly; Corfu ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk Ivul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi; E. Siberia. Exp. 52-62 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 50; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 58, pi. 237. f. 2. Green, lateral line yellow, with a pair of confluent white black- edged dots above it on each segment; spiracular line red, sometimes interrupted, white-edged below, marked by triplets of white black- edged dots. Food-plants : Carduus, /SiJene, Ononis., &G. 5-7. 2446. Xylina curvimacula. (Plate CIII; fig. IL) Calocampa curvimacula, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Wat. Sci. ii. p. 191 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 236. Head and tegulce ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi, lower part of frons and lateral bars on frons purplish rufous ; thorax deep rufous
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