. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PlIYTOMETRA. 469 Piusia innafa, Yer. Eegensb. xxii p. 184 (1868). Piusia comma, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). Piusia vi, descrticola, Obertli. ined. Eoths. ?Nov. Zool. xx. p. 129 (1913). Head and thorax inifous mixed Avith whitish, the tegulae with slight blackish line at middle defined behind by white scales ; abdo- men pale rufous, the crests red-brown and whitish, the ventral surface white tinged with nif ous. Fore Aving whitish irrorated and striated with black-brown
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PlIYTOMETRA. 469 Piusia innafa, Yer. Eegensb. xxii p. 184 (1868). Piusia comma, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). Piusia vi, descrticola, Obertli. ined. Eoths. ?Nov. Zool. xx. p. 129 (1913). Head and thorax inifous mixed Avith whitish, the tegulae with slight blackish line at middle defined behind by white scales ; abdo- men pale rufous, the crests red-brown and whitish, the ventral surface white tinged with nif ous. Fore Aving whitish irrorated and striated with black-brown and suffused Avith red-broA\Ti AA'ith a golden cupreous gloss ; subbasal line Avhite defined on each side by red-brown and with a black striga before it below the cell, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, red-brown filled in A\ith AAdiite, AvaA-ed, oblique beloAv the cell; orbicular white, its centre defined by red-brown, oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery-Avhite V-shaped stigma beloAV the cell, Avith spot beyond its loAA'er extremity A\'ith some red-broAvn in centre, its arms filled in Avith Avhite ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in Avith white, bent outwarcLs beloAV costa, then oblique and minutely. Fig. 121.—Phyiometra ni, J. \. Avaved, bent outwards below submedian fold, some Avhite points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on outer side by Avhite and AA^ith short black streaks before it from beloAV costa to aboA^e vein 4, dentate ; a fine Avhite line before teimen and a fine dark terminal line ; cilia Avith a Avhite line at followed by a series of red-brown lunules. Hind Aving Avhitish suffused Anth cupreous red-broAvn, the tenuinal area cupreous red-brown ; cilia Avhite Avith a red-broAvn line near base ; the under- side Avhite tinged Avith rufous, the costal area iri'orated Avith bi'own and the tenuinal area slightly suffused Avith brown. Ab. 1. comma. Fore Aving Avith the stigma forming a Y-m
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