. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LASIANOBIA. Z,^ with rather slender claw- ike spines on 1st joint. Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with white marks on subterminal line at middle and in submedian interspace lauta. B. Fore wine without


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LASIANOBIA. Z,^ with rather slender claw- ike spines on 1st joint. Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with white marks on subterminal line at middle and in submedian interspace lauta. B. Fore wine without white marks on subterminal line decreta. *1522. Lasianobia lauta. Mamestra lauta, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 119 (190U); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 254, add. Head and thorax grey-brown with a reddish tinge; abdomen grey tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown, with a purpHsh tinge and glossy texture ; a slight curved black streak below base of cell; the subbasal line repre- sented by a black point on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, with. Fig. 56.—Lasianobia lauta, (^. \. an oblique black striga at costa, irregularly dentate, oblique, connected with postmedial line by a black streak on inner margin ; claviform small or minute, indistinctly defined by black with some white scales on it; orbicular and reniform moderate, with yellowish- white annuli incompletely defined by black, the former rounded; postmedial line rather indistinct, slightly defined by grey on outer side, with black point at costa and striga at inner margin, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, with yellowish-white marks on it at middle and submedian fold, defined on inner side by rufous suffusion and small dentate dark marks at middle and submedian fold, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; traces of some terminal black lunules sometimes present; cilia brown with a grey line through them. Hind wing grey near


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