. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MANOBTA. 277 Fore wing rufous suffused with purplish grey, leaving the area in and beyond end of cell and the medial area below submedian fold rufous; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold; a wedge-shaped dark brown streak below base of cell; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 1, and bent inwards to inner margin; claviform small, very indistinctly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and grey anuuli defined by brown, the former. Fi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MANOBTA. 277 Fore wing rufous suffused with purplish grey, leaving the area in and beyond end of cell and the medial area below submedian fold rufous; subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold; a wedge-shaped dark brown streak below base of cell; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 1, and bent inwards to inner margin; claviform small, very indistinctly defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and grey anuuli defined by brown, the former. Fig. 57.—Manobia xena, (S. \. round, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure; post- medial line double, filled in with grey, minutely waved, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; sub- terminal line grey defined by brown on each side and with a brown patch with pale points on it before it on costa, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; a fine waved terminal line. Hind wing pale brown, the veins and a fine terminal lino darker; cilia brownish white; the underside pale pinkish irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Fore tarsi with curved claws on outer side of 1st joint, Eah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 c?, Amdo. Exp. 40 millim. 1525. Manohia grisea. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 22.) Alyssia grisea, Butl. A. M. N. H. i'5) i. p. 82 (1878). cJ. Head and thorax reddish brown, some of the scales tipped with grey ; abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing ochreous brown tinged with greyish ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, oblique ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, pale ; an indistinct curved medial shade ; postmedial line indistinct, double, waved, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa; the terminal area rather darker, with traces of subterminal line angled
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