. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 494 NOCTtriD^. Ab. 2. Ground-colour pale brownish ocbreous, not tinged with •orange or red except at extremity of abdomen and on hind wing. Hah. Cai^ada (Norman), 3 c?, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 c?, 1 5 , Alberta, Calgary (WoUei/-Dod), 5 c?, Br, Columbia, Coldstream Ranch (Hiss Ricardo), 1 S \ south to Yirginia and west to the Rocky Mts., 4 cJ, 4 $ (Doubledaij), 1 c? type, jSI'ew York, 2 <S. Exp. 36-48 millim. 2717. Atethmia xerampelina. Noct'ua xeramj)eUna, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 183. f. .5 (1793); Hilb
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 494 NOCTtriD^. Ab. 2. Ground-colour pale brownish ocbreous, not tinged with •orange or red except at extremity of abdomen and on hind wing. Hah. Cai^ada (Norman), 3 c?, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 c?, 1 5 , Alberta, Calgary (WoUei/-Dod), 5 c?, Br, Columbia, Coldstream Ranch (Hiss Ricardo), 1 S \ south to Yirginia and west to the Rocky Mts., 4 cJ, 4 $ (Doubledaij), 1 c? type, jSI'ew York, 2 <S. Exp. 36-48 millim. 2717. Atethmia xerampelina. Noct'ua xeramj)eUna, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 183. f. .5 (1793); Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 421 (1827); Dup. Lep. Fr. ^^ii. p. 249, pi. llfi. f. 1 ; En-. Neue Beitr. ii. pi. 149. f. 2; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 858; Mill. Icones, pi. 33. if. 4-7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. Noctua centraqo. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 236 (1809); Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 84 ; Steph. 111. iBrit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 65. Cirradia imicolor, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 116 (1871). CirracUa pallida, Staud. Ins, iv. p. 299 (1891). Cirrcedia maculifera, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 299 (1891). Head and thorax yellow suffused with rufous ; abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing bright yellow; the 1st line medial, straight, slightlj^ oblique; medial area suffused with rufous except cell and costal area; orbicular absent; reniform large, rufous, ill-defined; postmedial line straight from costa to vein 6, then oblique, the costal edge bej'ond it rufous with pale points ; terminal area rufous. Fig. 166.—Atethmia xeranqxlina, (^. \. except at apex, its inner edge oblique from termen just below apex to discal fold, where it is angled, then angled outwards at vein 4. Hind wing yellowish white slightly tinged with rufous, especially ou terminal area; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous, traces of a curved postmedial line from costa to vein 3. Ab. 1. unicolor. Fore wing nearly uniform reddish with the lines yellow. Ab. 2, pallida. Paler; fore wing reddish or greyish ochr
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