. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 200 ;. *3S17. Andropolia extincta. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. S.) Folia exUncta, Smith, Pr. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 471 (1900); Pyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 120. 5 . Head and thorax blue-grey with dark irroration ; patagia with dark lines near edges ; abdomen grey .slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing bluish grey with dark irroration, the terminal area darker ; subbasal line represented by dark striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line rather strong, black defined by whitish scales on inner side, oblique, waved ; clavifo
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 200 ;. *3S17. Andropolia extincta. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. S.) Folia exUncta, Smith, Pr. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 471 (1900); Pyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 120. 5 . Head and thorax blue-grey with dark irroration ; patagia with dark lines near edges ; abdomen grey .slightly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing bluish grey with dark irroration, the terminal area darker ; subbasal line represented by dark striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line rather strong, black defined by whitish scales on inner side, oblique, waved ; claviform defined by black, acute at extremity; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former elliptical, the latter large ; medial shade oblique and blackish from costa to reniform, indistinct and incurved below the cell; postmedial line slightly defined by whitish on outer side, bent out- wards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa; subtcrminal line represented by a series of strongly dentate pale marks slightly defined by black on outer side and with black streak from it to postmedial line below vein 2; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing greyish suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; a large discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia white ; the underside grey with dark irroration, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hah. , New Hampshire, Twin Mountain. 47millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Xat. Mus.; the male maj prove to have serrate antennae. 3818. Andropolia theodori. Apatela theodori, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 237 n878) ; id. 111. Essar. p. 55, ])1. ii. f. 17; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. Folia epicln/sis, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 21'J (iSSO); id. 111. Essay, p. 55, pi. ii. f. 18. S. Head and thorax grey-white tinged with iiale and dark brown and vcllow; frons with blac
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