. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 648 ;. Genus RHYNCHAGROTIS. Type. Uhf/nchagrofis, Smith, Bull. Nat. Mas. 38, p. lo (1S90) ... (jUvipcnnis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint moderately scaled in front, the 3rd naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rouudei^i ; antenna? of male ciliated : head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter without crests ; mid and hind tibia; strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle : 9 from 10 anastomosing


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 648 ;. Genus RHYNCHAGROTIS. Type. Uhf/nchagrofis, Smith, Bull. Nat. Mas. 38, p. lo (1S90) ... (jUvipcnnis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint moderately scaled in front, the 3rd naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rouudei^i ; antenna? of male ciliated : head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter without crests ; mid and hind tibia; strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle : 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Hind wing with the terminal band slightly on apical area and in submedian fold chardhiyi. B. Hind wing with the terminal band broadly expanding on apical area and in submedian fold gilvipcnnig. 1114. Rhynchagrotis cliardinyi. Triphmna chardiiiyi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 94 (1829); Sclimelt. Eur. ii. p. 328, pi. 30. ff. 149, 150; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 217. pi. 20. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. Triphcena hefcera, Eversm. Bull. Mosc. 1837, p. 34 ; Frey, Neue Beitr. Schmett. iii. pi. 279. f. 1. Agrotisfuchsii, Wendl. Jarb. Nass. Verb. liv. p. 86 (1901). Head, thorax, and abdomen clotlied with grey and reddish-brown hair; palpi and front of pectus whitish ; tarsi black with whitish rings : abdomen black with the anal tuft yellowish at tip. Fore 'wing reddish brown suffused with grey a subbasal dark striga. Fig. 119.— I\hi/ncJiagrotis chardimji, (^. \. from costa : the antemedial line indistinct, angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; orbicular grey, oblique, elliptical; reniform rather small, outlined with grey: the post- medial line minutely dentate, excurved below costa and at median nervules, then incurved, and with more or less diffused grey beyond it; an irre


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