. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I'LATYSKXTA. 449 represented by a double series of black points on llie veins with whitish points between them, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some white points bo3'ond it on costa ; sub- terminal line absent; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia blackish mixed with grey, intersected with white at base and Avith slight black line at middle. Hind wing white, the terminal. Fig. 126.âPlatysenta videns, (^. \. area slightly tinged wilh brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white mixed with fusc
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I'LATYSKXTA. 449 represented by a double series of black points on llie veins with whitish points between them, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some white points bo3'ond it on costa ; sub- terminal line absent; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia blackish mixed with grey, intersected with white at base and Avith slight black line at middle. Hind wing white, the terminal. Fig. 126.âPlatysenta videns, (^. \. area slightly tinged wilh brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white mixed with fuscous at tips; the underside with the costal area suffused with rufous, the veins of terminal half irrorated with black to vein 2, a blackish discoidal striga and terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. Hab. , 1 (S type atriclliata, Massachusetts, Distr. of Columbia, Illinois, Florida (Doubleday), 2 S type and type indigens, Colorado. Exp. 34-36 millim. Larva. Dull green with a number of longitudinal white lines, the stigmatal line stronger; ventral claspers deep pink ; head green with two brown streaks. Food-plant: ?Solidago. 4144. Platysenta albipuncta. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 29.) Flatysenfa alhipuiicta, Smith, J. Ent. Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 109. â Juc. X. p. 4(i (1902); Djar, J. Head and thorax greyish ochreous mixed with fuscous brown ; palpi fuscous ; pectus whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen whitish suff'used with brown, the basal crest black and white. Fore wing greyish ochreous, the disk tinged with reddish brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous except at apex, the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; subbasal and antemedial lines absent; orbicular represented by a slight whitish mark above median nervure ; a diffused fuscous streak on terminal half of median nervure extending to beyond the cell; a small white spot at lower angle of cell with whitish points before and beyond it; postmedial line represented by a ser
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