. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 238 XOCTCIDi. Larva. Mevr. Brit Ix-p. p. M; Harrctt, Lcp, Brit. iv. p. 282. pi. 167. f. 1. YfUow-nreen, dt»r?iilly suH'usfd with reddish ; dorsal line palo reddish tnnrki'd with V-shnped black spots; a sulidorsal sfrios of blai'k marks', .•^piraiular line palo yellowish ; head greenish speckled with brown. Food-plunts : Grasses, Cic/iormni. 10-4. Skct. IV. AntcnniB of male scrrnto and fasciculate. A. Fiire wing black tinged with purplish grey vigra. B. Kore wing black mixed with dark brown haati. 23S7. Aporophyla nigra. Xoctua
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 238 XOCTCIDi. Larva. Mevr. Brit Ix-p. p. M; Harrctt, Lcp, Brit. iv. p. 282. pi. 167. f. 1. YfUow-nreen, dt»r?iilly suH'usfd with reddish ; dorsal line palo reddish tnnrki'd with V-shnped black spots; a sulidorsal sfrios of blai'k marks', .•^piraiular line palo yellowish ; head greenish speckled with brown. Food-plunts : Grasses, Cic/iormni. 10-4. Skct. IV. AntcnniB of male scrrnto and fasciculate. A. Fiire wing black tinged with purplish grey vigra. B. Kore wing black mixed with dark brown haati. 23S7. Aporophyla nigra. Xoctua ni. pi. 20. f. 1 ; Staiul. Cat. Lcp. pal. p. 178. yocfiia (vthiops, Ochs. Sdunett. Eur. iv. j). (ISK'i); (Jeycr. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 801 ; Frr. Ncue Heitr. ii. i>l. 147. t. 2 & iii pi". 221. yortita nigricans, Ilubii. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. MS (1827); Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 8r)9-r,0. Aporophyla scileri, Fuchs, Stett. ent. Zeit. xii. p. 128 (1901). Head and thorax black with a purplish-grey gloss; tegulsB with black medial lino; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown tirij;ed with grey and with some whitish hair at base. Fore wing black sufl'used with purplish grey and slightly irrorated with white, cbieHy on the veins wliich are slightly darker; a double dentate subbasiil line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved antemedial line ; claviform moderate, dttined by black; orbicular and rcniform defined by black ; the former oblique elliptical, the latter with more or less developed ochreous point* on its outer edge; an irregularly waved indistinct medial line oblique. Fig. -Aporophyla nigra, J. }. from costa to lower angle of cell; postmcdial line double, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, exeurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line formed by a scries of obscure dentate dark marks with a few ochreous scales on their outer edges, angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at middle; .i terminal s
Size: 2553px × 979px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectmoths, bookyear1913
