. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 474 NocTuii)^. scales; froiis with black bar ; tegula) with two black lines ; patagia with black line near margins ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen brown, laterallj' and ventrally tinged with j)nrple. Fore wing leaden grej', slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous; the medial area with the costal edge wliite and with black fasciae in discal and snbmedian folds ; the lines double tilled in with white; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved, angled outwards above inner
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 474 NocTuii)^. scales; froiis with black bar ; tegula) with two black lines ; patagia with black line near margins ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen brown, laterallj' and ventrally tinged with j)nrple. Fore wing leaden grej', slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with fuscous; the medial area with the costal edge wliite and with black fasciae in discal and snbmedian folds ; the lines double tilled in with white; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved, angled outwards above inner margin, not connected with the claviform, which is narrow and defined by white ; orbicular and reniform with white annuli, the former small, round, the latter narrow, with pale centre defined by brown ; postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and with series of dentate black marks on its inner side, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line white, with prominent series of dentate black marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected with grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale rufous ; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown ; a diffused curved post- medial line, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous from apex to vein 2. Hah. VrcTOEiA, Melbourne, type f J in Coll. Turner. E,vp. 40 millim. 1822. Dasygaster ligniplena. Xylina ligniplena, Wlk. xi. 762 (1857). (S. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grev ; frons with black bar ; teguloe with black medial line ; patagia with some. Fig. 142.—Dasyga&tcr Ucjniplcna, (^. \. black scales above; spurs and tarsi with pale rings ; abdomeo rufous, pale at base. Fore wing rufous and pale ochreous irrorated with black ; the veins irrorated with black ; a black streak below base of cell; subbasal line defined by pale colour on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line define
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