. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. PAEASICCIA. 409 ochreous. Fore wing white ; the costal edge blacMsli towards base; a black point below base of cell; obliquely placed subbasal black spots below costa and cell; a curved aiitemedial series of spots with larger spot on costa ; a black spot at middle of cell and prominent discoidal spot; medial and postmedial series of spots with fuscous suffusion between them, the former angled outwards to discocellulars, the latter at veins 6 and 4 ; a subterminal series of spots angled outwards at veins 6 and 4
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. PAEASICCIA. 409 ochreous. Fore wing white ; the costal edge blacMsli towards base; a black point below base of cell; obliquely placed subbasal black spots below costa and cell; a curved aiitemedial series of spots with larger spot on costa ; a black spot at middle of cell and prominent discoidal spot; medial and postmedial series of spots with fuscous suffusion between them, the former angled outwards to discocellulars, the latter at veins 6 and 4 ; a subterminal series of spots angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of spots, with those at apex and vein 4 larger. Hind wing whitish, the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; a discoidal spot and indistinct curved post- medial line, more prominent on underside ; female with the hind wing wholly fuscous above. Hab. SiKHiM {Atkinson), 1 $ cotype, type t c? in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 30 millim. 870. Parasiccia altaica. Nudaria altaica, Led. Verb, G-es. Wien, v. p. 104. pi. i. P. 3 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 3fi0. JEmene. fasciata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xx. p. 399 (1877); id. 111. Het. B. M. ii. p. 7, pi. 22. f. 9; , Cat. Het. p. 367. Head and thorax grey; palpi, antennae, fore legs, and spots on mesothorax blackish ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft and ventral surface grey. Fore wing grey, the costal edge black towards base ; a black point at base and subbasal spots on costa and below cell; an antemedial spot on costa, with one or two points below it in cell and one on vein 1; a spot at middle of cell and another on discocellulars; a double post- Fig. 319.—Pamsiccw aZ^'ajm, cj'• r- medial series of more or less confluent spots, angled at veins 6 and 4, then incurved ; a more or less complete subterminal series of spots, many of them sometimes absent or sometimes reduced to the spot on costa ; a terminal series of points and spots on the cilia at apex and middle. Hind wing pale fuscous, with traces of a d
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