. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3889. Acroria denterna. (Plate CXXIX fig. 3.) Ayiophasia cleiUerna, Guen. Noct. i. p. 140 (1852). Head and tegulse ochreous mixed with rufous ; frons with rufous bar ; tegulse with rufous lines near base, at middle and at tips ; thorax ochreous slightly mixed with brown and with dark brown dorsal fascia ; pectus and legs ochreous, the fore legs with brown mixed, the tarsi slightly banded with brown ; abdomen ochreous suiiused with dark brown except at base, the crests dark brown, the anal tuft suffused with rufous above. Fore
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3889. Acroria denterna. (Plate CXXIX fig. 3.) Ayiophasia cleiUerna, Guen. Noct. i. p. 140 (1852). Head and tegulse ochreous mixed with rufous ; frons with rufous bar ; tegulse with rufous lines near base, at middle and at tips ; thorax ochreous slightly mixed with brown and with dark brown dorsal fascia ; pectus and legs ochreous, the fore legs with brown mixed, the tarsi slightly banded with brown ; abdomen ochreous suiiused with dark brown except at base, the crests dark brown, the anal tuft suffused with rufous above. Fore wing pale ochreous with slight olive-brown streaks in the interspaces; a purplish brown fascia on inner margin from before middle, where it narrows to a point, to termen where it expands to submedian fohl, a slight black streak on it on medial area above inner margin; subbasal and autemedial lines represented by double brown striae from costa; orbicular very small, round, with faint pale annulus; reniform with pale annulus, its centre faintly defined by brown, somewhat constricted at middle ; postmedial line with double brown strife from costa, bent outwards below costa, then almost, obsolete, dentate and produced to black points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, distinct and defined by whitish on outer side below. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 10th bart. , 1860-1936. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees
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