. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 275 3887. Antha gi*ata. Leptina grata, Entl. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 18S1, p. 172; Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. li- p. ^37; Stand. Cat. Lep. pjil. p. IS-'l Antha pretiosa, Staud. Roui. AJeiii. vi. p. 4-18, pi. 7. f. 6(1892). Head and thorax rufous mixed \x\t\\ whitish; palpi white in front, j-ed-brown at sides; tegular brownish with white band and rufous tips; dorsum of thorax red-brown; ])ectus whitish mixed with brown, the tar»i dark ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing ochreous tin
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 275 3887. Antha gi*ata. Leptina grata, Entl. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 18S1, p. 172; Ilmpsn. Moths Ind. li- p. ^37; Stand. Cat. Lep. pjil. p. IS-'l Antha pretiosa, Staud. Roui. AJeiii. vi. p. 4-18, pi. 7. f. 6(1892). Head and thorax rufous mixed \x\t\\ whitish; palpi white in front, j-ed-brown at sides; tegular brownish with white band and rufous tips; dorsum of thorax red-brown; ])ectus whitish mixed with brown, the tar»i dark ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing ochreous tinged Avith rufous, .some pale pink suffusion in submedian inter- space and below base of costa ; a black-brow^n fascia on inner margin from near base ; subbasal lino represented by two slight oblique striai from costa, the antemedial line by an oDlique striga from cobta, then by some points, a faint tooth in submedian interspace and a very elongate tooth above inner margin deiiued by white ou. Fig. 14.—All/ha grata, c?. \- inner side ; claviform very faintly defined by brown, narrow, acute, at extremity; orbicular and reniform with pale pink annuli, the former with rufous centre, elongate, narrow, and slightly oblique, the latter constricted at middle, with pink centre defined by an irregular rufous line ; a blackish patch on middle of costa ; postmedial line dark brown defined on outer side by pinkish white on costa and below middle, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; a curved diffused pinkish subterminal band, slightly defined by red-brown on inner side except towards inner margin and crossed by dark streaks towards apex ; the terminal area dark red-brown with blackish spots and a fine white line before the dark terminal line, the extremity of vein 1 defined by fine white streaks with black streaks above and below them and a white bar from their inner extremity to inner margin ; cilia wh
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