. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 566 NOCTTTID^. Genus EUSTROTIA. Type, Eustrotia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 253 (1827) uncula. Hydrelia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 227 (1841) oUvana. Hyela, Steph. Cat. Lep. Brit. B. M. p. 149 (1850), iion descr.; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 307 uncula. Ba7ikia, Gruen. Noct. ii. p. 231 (1852) olivana. Micardia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 81 (1878) argentata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short: frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenn
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 566 NOCTTTID^. Genus EUSTROTIA. Type, Eustrotia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 253 (1827) uncula. Hydrelia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 227 (1841) oUvana. Hyela, Steph. Cat. Lep. Brit. B. M. p. 149 (1850), iion descr.; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 307 uncula. Ba7ikia, Gruen. Noct. ii. p. 231 (1852) olivana. Micardia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 81 (1878) argentata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short: frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna of male typically somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibia smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veius 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked or from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches to apex. 5849. Eustrotia melanchlaena. Tarache vnelanchlcena, Swiuh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 148; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 318. Head and thorax dark grey-brown; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing dark grey-brown; an antemedial whitish band tinged with rufous and bounded by the double antemedial. Fig. 158.—Eustrotia melanchlcBiia, (^. |. line filled in wiih grey and slightly sinuous ; orbicular faint, pale, round; the reniform a slight pale lunule; an indistinct curved medial line; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa and angled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, a whitish band beyond it; s
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