. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 472 NOCTUID.'E. folds ; a terminal series of slight dark striae; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing dark olive-brown suflused with grey espe- ciallj-on terminal half; rather diffused dark medial and postmedial lines ; cilia dark brown at base, grey at tips ; the underside greyer, the medial line oblique and diffused, traces of two postmedial F^g. 228.—Axenus urvcdis, (^. \. Ab. 1. ochracea. Head and thorax clothed chiefly with fulvous hair; fore wing with a cupreous tinge. Ab. 2, ampla. AVings with the grey m


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 472 NOCTUID.'E. folds ; a terminal series of slight dark striae; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing dark olive-brown suflused with grey espe- ciallj-on terminal half; rather diffused dark medial and postmedial lines ; cilia dark brown at base, grey at tips ; the underside greyer, the medial line oblique and diffused, traces of two postmedial F^g. 228.—Axenus urvcdis, (^. \. Ab. 1. ochracea. Head and thorax clothed chiefly with fulvous hair; fore wing with a cupreous tinge. Ab. 2, ampla. AVings with the grey markings more or less completely obsolete except the subterminal line. tJah. , Oregon, 2 $ , llouge E, ( Walshujham), 12^,2?, Grant Co. (Walsingham), 2 $ , Colorado, California, 3 (S, 9 $ . Exp. 20-24 millim. Genus ANNAPHILA. Type. Annapliila, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 149 (1873) diva. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and clothed •aith long hair; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eves small, elliptical; antennas of male ciliated; thorax clothed witli rough scales and hair and witliout crests; tibi£e fringed with longhair; abdomen vithout crests and with lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing short and broad, •he apex rounded, the terraen evenly curved and not creuulate ; veins '6 and .3 •"rom near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoccllular.'t; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Hind wing orange. a. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas dark, without subbasal line. ct}. Hind wing without discoidal black spot arvalis. b^. Hind wing with discoidal black spot. a'^. Hind wing with more or less developed postmedial line danistica. b^. Hind wing without postmedial line. a?. Fore wing without difl'used white postmedi


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