. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 36 :, A. Fore wing witli medial bbick on costa diphteroidcs. B. Fore wing vvitliout medial blac-k patch on costa vegta. 3609, Leuconycta diphteroides. Microccelia cliphferoides, Gnen. IN'oct. i. p. 34, pi. ,'}. f. 7 (1852); Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. iii. p. 78, pi. 2. f. 2; id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 69; Smith, Cat. Noet. jV. Am. p. 48. Microccelia ohliterafa, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 79 (1864); id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 70. Head and thorax pale green mix
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 36 :, A. Fore wing witli medial bbick on costa diphteroidcs. B. Fore wing vvitliout medial blac-k patch on costa vegta. 3609, Leuconycta diphteroides. Microccelia cliphferoides, Gnen. IN'oct. i. p. 34, pi. ,'}. f. 7 (1852); Grote, Proc. Ent. Soe. Phil. iii. p. 78, pi. 2. f. 2; id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 69; Smith, Cat. Noet. jV. Am. p. 48. Microccelia ohliterafa, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 79 (1864); id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 195, pi. 3. f. 70. Head and thorax pale green mixed -with wliite, the head with some brown scales ; palpi ochreous banded with brown ; aiiteuuse brown; tegiilae edged with brown; prothoracie crest red-brown at base ; patagia and metathoraeic crests tipped with black ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with ochreous, the tibiae and tarsi dark brown, the latter ringed with white; abdomen white irrorated with black, the ventral surface tinged with ochreous. Fore wing very pale green irrorated with white ; subbasal line double, waved, black, interrupted below costa and above inner margin, a triangular black spot beyond it on costa; antemedial line double, black, oblique, waved, strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniforra with white aunuli defined by black, the former elliptical, the latter open above, its centre defined by blackish on outer side and below, a black fascia. Fig. 8.—Leuconycta cliphieroidcs, (^. \. between them above median nervure, with a blackish sliade above it from costa ; a slight waved line from below reniform to inner margin ; postmedial line double tilled in with white, strongly bent outwards below costa, then lunulate and with black points beyond it on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some black and white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line slight, Avhite, defined on inner side by dentate black marks, waved, incurved at discal and sub- median folds ; a ter
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