. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SIDEEIDI?, 437 Sect. I. Anteunte of male bipectinate, with short branches to near apex. < 1775. Sideridis limbata. Apamea limbata, Butl. N. H. (5) iv. p. 360 (1879). Head and thorax grey tinged witli brown, the crests on thorax tipped with black; tarsi banded with black; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with black. Fore wi"ng ochreous white striated with brown and irrorated with black, the areas between subbasal and antemedial lines down to submedian fold and between postmedial and subterminal lines except towards
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SIDEEIDI?, 437 Sect. I. Anteunte of male bipectinate, with short branches to near apex. < 1775. Sideridis limbata. Apamea limbata, Butl. N. H. (5) iv. p. 360 (1879). Head and thorax grey tinged witli brown, the crests on thorax tipped with black; tarsi banded with black; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with black. Fore wi"ng ochreous white striated with brown and irrorated with black, the areas between subbasal and antemedial lines down to submedian fold and between postmedial and subterminal lines except towards inner margin suffused with black; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- medial line double, waved, angled outwards below cell; claviform. Fig. 119.—Sideridis limbata, d. \- small, incompletely defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former small, irregularly rounded, the latter rather constricted at middle; an oblique fuscous striga from costa to reniform; postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the dark and pale areas, angled outwards at discal fold and incurved above and below those points; a terminal series of black points ; cilia rufous with black tips. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, the inner and terminal areas suffused with fuscous brown ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line with short black strealis on the veins sliowing through to upperside. Hab. Japan, Kiushiu, i d , Yokohama {rri/cr), 1 J , 4 ? , type. Ex2). 44 millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. A. {Hi/philare). Abdo7nen of male with paired ventral tufts of long liair from base; the wing suffused with silvery scales on underside. a. Frontal tuft of male enlarged and hollowed out over the palpi; tults of jellow scales below and between teguliu. 177G. Sideridis litliargyria. Kodua li/harr/7/
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