. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EMAEGINEA. BKTOLTMNTA. 119 black point below costa, the antemedial Hue by points below costa and above inner margin ; the outer edge of orbicular and inner edge of reniform defined by slight blackish lines, the stigmata otherwise undefined; postmedial line black, minutely waved, excurved below costa and at middle, then incurved, the blue-grey extending to its inner side below costa; a blue-grey line on termen at the excision below apex. Hind wing pure white; the underside with curved blackish postmedial line from below costa
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EMAEGINEA. BKTOLTMNTA. 119 black point below costa, the antemedial Hue by points below costa and above inner margin ; the outer edge of orbicular and inner edge of reniform defined by slight blackish lines, the stigmata otherwise undefined; postmedial line black, minutely waved, excurved below costa and at middle, then incurved, the blue-grey extending to its inner side below costa; a blue-grey line on termen at the excision below apex. Hind wing pure white; the underside with curved blackish postmedial line from below costa to vein 4, Hah. , Colorado desert, 1 5 , California, Walters Station. Ex'j). 24 millim. Genus BRYOLYMNIA, nov. Type, B. roma. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iiptiirned, slender, the 2ud joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the ord moderate ; irons with slight rounded promiuenc-e with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antenute of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the nietathorax with decumbent crest; tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and uotcrenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the small areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing of male with brush of long hair on underside from near base of iuuer area ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 stalked. 4452. Bryolymnia floecifera. Grammo2)hm'a floccifera, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Gres. xiv. p. 41, f. 7 (1886). Head white ; palpi black except at tips ; antennae black except basal joint; tegular orange fulvous ; thorax white and emerald-green, the pro- and meta
Size: 3006px × 831px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmoths, bookyear1898
