. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. FOTA. — 21-5 Sect. 1[. Iliml wing of feiUcile with veins .S, 4 from cell. 3827. Fota armata. Fota armata, Grote, Cat. Ent. xiv. pp. 17^, 181 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 183. $ . Head whitish mixed with hrown ; neck with some ochreous hair ; thorax purplish grey mixed with fusooiis und brown ; pectus and legs white; abdomen oclireous white. Fore wing ])urplish grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by two faint oblique strite from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, minute
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. FOTA. — 21-5 Sect. 1[. Iliml wing of feiUcile with veins .S, 4 from cell. 3827. Fota armata. Fota armata, Grote, Cat. Ent. xiv. pp. 17^, 181 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 183. $ . Head whitish mixed with hrown ; neck with some ochreous hair ; thorax purplish grey mixed with fusooiis und brown ; pectus and legs white; abdomen oclireous white. Fore wing ])urplish grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by two faint oblique strite from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved to subraedian fold, then l)ent inwards, a diffused black streak in submediau fold from it to post- medial line ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black and. their centres shghtly by fuscous, the former round, the latter elliptical, a diffused black fascia before and between them ; post- medial line indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, minutely dentate to vein 2, then bent inwards, an indistinct whitish sub- termiual line, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and crossed by slight black streaks below veins 8, 7, 6 ; a terminal series of slight blackish points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with ochreous ; the underside white, the costal area slightly irrorated with brown towards apex. Hub. , xlrizona, Nogales, 1 $ . Exi^. 32 millim. Genus OXYCNEMIS. Type. «e»u's, Gri"ote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 182(1882) adwnn. Proboscis aborted, small; paljii obliquely nptarned, slender, hardly reaching the middle of frons and muderaLely fringed with hair in front; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna of male serrate and fasciculate; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with large crest formed of large curled scales; tibire moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibia very short, broadening into a large curved claw on inner i-ide at extremity; abdomeu without
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