. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. vocTVxnx. 245'). Eurotype acutissima. I'acht//)o/ia acutiMima, Groto, Clicck List Noct. p. 23, pi. f. 9 (187'>); Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 1(17. cf. Head nnd thornx clothod with whitp, brown, and scales and hair; tarsi ringed \\\\\\ white ; alxlnmon mixed with brown. Fore winp whitish thickly suffused and irrorat«'d with dark brown; a black streak below base of cell defined by white above ; subbasal lino defined by whitish on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by wfi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. vocTVxnx. 245'). Eurotype acutissima. I'acht//)o/ia acutiMima, Groto, Clicck List Noct. p. 23, pi. f. 9 (187'>); Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 1(17. cf. Head nnd thornx clothod with whitp, brown, and scales and hair; tarsi ringed \\\\\\ white ; alxlnmon mixed with brown. Fore winp whitish thickly suffused and irrorat«'d with dark brown; a black streak below base of cell defined by white above ; subbasal lino defined by whitish on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by wfiite on inner aide, oblique, dentate, anpled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin : claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular. Fig. 85.—Eurotype acutiMima, J and reniform large, with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the former oblii|ue V-shaped, open above ; postmcdial line doulile, filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate, angled inwards in submedian fold; sub- terminal line white defined on inner side by small dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, ,'i, in- curved at submedian fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia brown with white. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal area rather paler ; the underside yellowish white thickly irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot, waved postmcdial line, and traces of subterminal line. Hah. C.\, Montreal, 1 J type, Ottawa {Toumj), 1 J, >'ova Scotia. Exp. oU millim. 2456. Eurotype medialis. (Plate CIII. fig. 15.) roliamrtltalis, Groto, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, xi. p. 306 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 167. Head and thorax clothed with white, brown, and black scales mixed; frons with black bar; leguhe with black medial line and blackish tips ; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen brown and white mixed, the dorsal cresta black at tips. Fore wing whitish irrorated with brown, the medial area suffused wit
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