. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 236 NOCTUIDiE. outwards ; a slight pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white suffused with pink except at base, in cell, and on costal area ; cilia white tinged with pink at tips ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with pink, an indistinct curved post- medial line. The male is more red-hrown and the female may be olive-brown. Huh. Spain, Andalusia, Catalonia; Syria, Eibes, 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 4G11. Enargia regina. Cosmia. regina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 297, pi. 4. f. 2 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. ])al- p
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 236 NOCTUIDiE. outwards ; a slight pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white suffused with pink except at base, in cell, and on costal area ; cilia white tinged with pink at tips ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with pink, an indistinct curved post- medial line. The male is more red-hrown and the female may be olive-brown. Huh. Spain, Andalusia, Catalonia; Syria, Eibes, 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 4G11. Enargia regina. Cosmia. regina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 297, pi. 4. f. 2 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. ])al- p. 204. S. Head and thorax ochreous yellow slightly tinged with rufous ; palpi pinkish at sides ; antennje rufous ; tibiae and tarsi strongly tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous white suffused with rufous. Fore wing ochreous yellow tinged with rufous, more strongly on medial area ; a blackish subbasal point in cell; ante- medial line indistinct, rufous defined by whitish on inner side, very. Fig. 95.—Enargia regina, (^ . \. oblique and almost straight; orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and pale ochreous annuli, the former small, oblique elli])tical, the latter oblong, the inner side of centre suffused with blackish ; postmedial line indistinct, rufous defined by yellowish Avhite on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line yellowish Avhite with three small black spots on inner side below costa, slightly bent inwards at discal fold, excurved, minutely waved and faintly defined by brown on outer side at middle; cilia more strongly tinged with rufous, with faint yellowish lines at base and middle. Hind wing white, the inner and terminal areas tinged with pink; cilia pale yellow, whitish at tips; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with rufous, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing rufous, the last with the medial area bright rufous ; hind wing
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