. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I/ITUOMCKA. '2L)9 h^. Antenna; of iimle with longer brauclie^. iiietatlioi-;icic crest rul'oiis hninwicrUla. I. Fure wing with the anteniedial line rep'esenterl by a striga from costa and long teeth in siibn>edian fold and above innei" margin in-disiincia. .'5821. Lithomcea rectilinea. Koctua rectilinea, Esp. Sclimett. iv. p. 379, pi. 1-7. f. 1 (178fi); Hiibn. Kur. Schniett., Nuct. f. i'4S; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 231, pi. 114. f. (5; Frr. Eeitr. pi. 4. f. 1 : Steph. 111. Erit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 179; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N.


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I/ITUOMCKA. '2L)9 h^. Antenna; of iimle with longer brauclie^. iiietatlioi-;icic crest rul'oiis hninwicrUla. I. Fure wing with the anteniedial line rep'esenterl by a striga from costa and long teeth in siibn>edian fold and above innei" margin in-disiincia. .'5821. Lithomcea rectilinea. Koctua rectilinea, Esp. Sclimett. iv. p. 379, pi. 1-7. f. 1 (178fi); Hiibn. Kur. Schniett., Nuct. f. i'4S; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 231, pi. 114. f. (5; Frr. Eeitr. pi. 4. f. 1 : Steph. 111. Erit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 179; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 121 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 18-. Head and thorax while tinged with rufous; frons with black bar ; teguhe with strong bLicli medial line ; patagia chocolate-red with black line near upper edge whicli is pure -wliite ; metathorax chocolate-red; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen red- brown, pale at base, the medial crests blackish. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown, the medial area red-brown with some white irroration, especially beyond the cell and on inner area, the terminal area red-brown, the A^eins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by slight brown striae from costa and cell; the inner basal area suffused with red-brown with a diffused black fascia in base of subniedian fold and a streak above inner margin before the anteraedial line, which is black defined by white on inner side, oblique and slightly sinuous from costa to subniedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin, a strong Idack fascia in submedian fold from it to post- medial line ; claviform very narrow, defined by black and obscured. ./ Vig. â ^\.â redHixca. (^. \. by the black fascia ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former elongate elliptical with its outer edge indented, the latter irrorated with white ; a slight dark medial shade from costa ; ])ostmedial line blackish defined by white on outer side and with


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