. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 18 t'rons â white with rufous bars above and between anteiinoe which are rufous ; tegulae with two slight dark lines at middle ; patagia with oblique white bands ; metathorax with whitish patch, some blackish scales at tips of patagia and metathorax ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen white with the dorsal crests rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the terminal area suffused with deep rufous and brown except towards costa; a very pale yellow-green fasc
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 18 t'rons â white with rufous bars above and between anteiinoe which are rufous ; tegulae with two slight dark lines at middle ; patagia with oblique white bands ; metathorax with whitish patch, some blackish scales at tips of patagia and metathorax ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen white with the dorsal crests rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the terminal area suffused with deep rufous and brown except towards costa; a very pale yellow-green fascia from subcostal nervure near base curving down to below vein 1, then upwards to median nervure at middle where it is con- fluent with a wedge-shaped mark in cell, these markings defined by silvery white lines ; two similarly coloured conical patches. i' ig. 1.â('osmodcs elcgam', (^ . beyond the cell belAveen veins 7 and 13 and 2 and 1, an oblique pain riifous fascia between veins 3 and 2 which are streaked with white, the area beyond the conical patches deep rufous to the silvery white postmedial line, which arises below costa, is angled outwards at vein 6 then oblique to vein 3 and between veins 2 and 1 ; a series of dark subterminal striae excurved from costa to vein 6, then defined on inner side by silvery white strise angled out- wards at vein 3 and ending at vein 2, with deep rufous before them between veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of dark striai with w^hitish before them above and beloAv vein 3 ; cilia brown with a dark line through them, whitish at apex and below vein 3. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area broadly tinged with rufous from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white with a faint rufous tinge. 5 . Head and tegulae deep rufous ⢠thorax pale rufous ; fore wing deep rufous, the costa dark with white points towards apex ; the interspace between veins 3 and 2 pale rufous at base, then greyish, the postmedial white line obsolete except between veins
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