. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 NOCTUlDiE. antemedial line indistinct, blackish defined by ochreous on inner side, curved ; orbicular minute, round, rufous defined by black ; reniform small, elliptical, with rufous centre and greyish annulua defined by black ; iwstmedial line double, filled in with grey to discal fold where it is interrupted by a black spot, then filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then. Pig. 145.—Rhyncliodia meso'phcBa, (^. ]. obliquely incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line re
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 NOCTUlDiE. antemedial line indistinct, blackish defined by ochreous on inner side, curved ; orbicular minute, round, rufous defined by black ; reniform small, elliptical, with rufous centre and greyish annulua defined by black ; iwstmedial line double, filled in with grey to discal fold where it is interrupted by a black spot, then filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then. Pig. 145.—Rhyncliodia meso'phcBa, (^. ]. obliquely incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a faint oblique pale striga from costa; a ter- minal series of black points ; cilia with dark line at middle and blackish tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area paler ; a terminal series of blackish striae ; cilia rufous with a dark line at middle. Underside of fore wing clothed with black androconia to submedian fold and beyond middle ; hind wing ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, sinuous punctiform postmedial line, and terminal series of black points. Bab. Teavancoee, Pirmad (Mrs. Imray), 1 d", 1 $ type. Exp. 26 millim. Genus ERASTROIDES. Type. Erastroicles, Hrapsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 98 (1893) oliviaria. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint, reaching about to vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes lai-ge, round ; anteunse of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the jDrothorax without crest, the mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with speading crest; tibifle moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen rather oblique towards tornus and not creuLilate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 fVom cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly f
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