. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BELLURA. 261 just below midille of discocellubirs ; 6, 7 slioftly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing red-brown in male, j-ellow sufTuscd with rufous in female, the postmeilial line excurved from costa to vein 4 ; anal tuft of female wliite gorfyvoides. B. Fore wing of female ochreous slightly irrorated with red- brown, the postmedial line strongly bent outwards below cosia, anal tuft blaek melanopyga. C. Fore wing ochreous strongly irrrn-ated and in parts suffused with dark red-brown, the postm
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BELLURA. 261 just below midille of discocellubirs ; 6, 7 slioftly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing red-brown in male, j-ellow sufTuscd with rufous in female, the postmeilial line excurved from costa to vein 4 ; anal tuft of female wliite gorfyvoides. B. Fore wing of female ochreous slightly irrorated with red- brown, the postmedial line strongly bent outwards below cosia, anal tuft blaek melanopyga. C. Fore wing ochreous strongly irrrn-ated and in parts suffused with dark red-brown, the postmedial line bent outwards below costa; anal tiift of female dark brown mixed with grey diffusa. 4648. Bellura gortynoides. Belh/.ra gorfpwides, Wlk. sxxii. 4G5 (1865); Smitii, Cut. Noet. N. Am. p. ISl. Arzama deiisa, Wlk. xsxii. (i45 (18(?5). Arzama vidnijlca, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 294 (1872). J . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with pale brown ; antenna) and abdomen pale red-brown. Forewins^ pale red-brown irrorated M'ith dark brown, most thickly on medial and terminal areas, the basal and terminal areas tinged with grey ; anteraedial line brown, minutelj' waved and oblique from costa to subcostal uervnre, then inwardly oblique, excurved below vein 1; orbicular and reniform red with somo brown scales in centre and slightly defined by brown, oblique elliptical with the lower extremities somewhat pointed, the former very small, the latter narrow; a. Fig. 107.—Bdlura gortynoides, J. \. diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner maririn ; postmedial line brown, dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some ])ale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line brown, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to lornus ; a fine terminal brown line. Hind wing pale red-brown with slif^ht dark irroration ; the underside with the costal area suffused with dark brown, a blackish discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial lin
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