. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 450 NOCTTJlDiE. ochreous white. Fore wing pale fulvous yellow, the veins streaked with white; antemedial line strong, white, defined on inner side by dark irroration, arising from base of cell, then excurved to middle of submedian fold, where it is angled and oblique to inner margin; orbicular an elliptical white spot; reniform represented by a white discoidal bar with its upper extremity bent outwards and its lower. Eig. 86.—Marcjdwna versicolora, (^ inwards ; postmedial line strong, white, arising from costa
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 450 NOCTTJlDiE. ochreous white. Fore wing pale fulvous yellow, the veins streaked with white; antemedial line strong, white, defined on inner side by dark irroration, arising from base of cell, then excurved to middle of submedian fold, where it is angled and oblique to inner margin; orbicular an elliptical white spot; reniform represented by a white discoidal bar with its upper extremity bent outwards and its lower. Eig. 86.—Marcjdwna versicolora, (^ inwards ; postmedial line strong, white, arising from costa towards apex, oblique, sinuous, some dark suffusion beyond it before the faint whitish oblique subterminal line; a slight dark terminal line; cilia white with a dark line through them. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous brown and with slight diffused ochreous brown postmedial shade ; the underside white tinged with ochreous and with faint diffused postmedial line. 5 . Hind wing suffused with brown leaving au indistinct whitish subterminal band. Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 cJ, 1 $ , Ferghana. S 38, 2 40 millim. B. Antennge of male with the branches decumbent and close together ; fore wing with the apex not produced upwards, the termen less obliquely curved. a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform white with dark centres, the terminal area bluish white lefiis. b. Fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, and terminal area suffused with red-brown discrepans. 3292. Margelana lenis. FJushopMhis lenis, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 279 (1892) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. S. Head and thorax white mixed with brown;' palpi with dark marks at side of 2nd joint; antennae ochreous white; '^^•^ abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing white irrorated with reddish brown and black, the terminal area blue-white with dark irroration ; subbasal and antemedial lines absent; claviforni a large white. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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