. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TEtPHiENA. 623 Sect. I. {Ahagrotis). Antennje of male serrate and fasciculate. *1075. TriphsBna erratica. Agrotis erratica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 41 (1890); id Cat Noct. N. Am. p. 60. i v /. â S. Dull ashen grey to brick-red; palpi blackish at sides; head and thorax pencilled with brown, the tegnlse whitish at tips. Fore wing irrorated with dark brown; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique slightly sinuous antemedial line; orbicular and reniform pale


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TEtPHiENA. 623 Sect. I. {Ahagrotis). Antennje of male serrate and fasciculate. *1075. TriphsBna erratica. Agrotis erratica, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 41 (1890); id Cat Noct. N. Am. p. 60. i v /. â S. Dull ashen grey to brick-red; palpi blackish at sides; head and thorax pencilled with brown, the tegnlse whitish at tips. Fore wing irrorated with dark brown; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct oblique slightly sinuous antemedial line; orbicular and reniform pale rufous with grey annuli, the former small, oblique, the latter with its lower end. Fig. â Triphcsna erratica, (^. i. filled in with blackish ; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, incurved in discal fold and below vein 4, with a series of dark points on the veins beyond it; subterminal line whitish, defined b}' brown on inner side, slightly excurved at vein 7 and at middle ; traces of a terminal series of points ; the inner margin and a fine line at base of cilia luteous; in the redder specimens the markings are almost obsolete. Hind wing pale grey-brown ; the cilia ochreous, white at tips ; underside with dark discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Uab. , California, Sierra ^^evada. ). 38 millim. Sect. II. (Triphcsna). Antennte of male ciliated. A. Hind wing orange. a. Fore wing with black bar or spot on costal area before subterminal line. a^. Hind wing with black discoidal lunule. a'^. Fore wing with white patch beyond the renifoi-m ". efflorescens. Ir. Fore wing without white patch beyond the reniform semiherbida. h^. Hind wing without black discoidal lunule fimbria. h. Fore wing without black bar or spot on costal area before subterminal line. a^. Tegulse white except at tips janthina. b'^. Tegulaj concolorous interjecta. B. Hind wing not orange. a. Head and tegulie dark red-brown, contrasting. a^. Pectus and ventral surface of abdomen


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