. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 514 Iv'OCXTJTD^. h. Fore -wing with the orbicular and reniform ahnost obsolete. a}. Fore wiug dull brown irrorated with whitish californica. b^. Fore wing dull brown suifused witJi black insinuata. 2744. HomoglaBa carbonaria. (Plate CVII. fig. 25.) Litlwjohane carbonaria, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 55 (1876); Smith, Cat, Noet. N. Am. p. 230. Head aud thorax purplish brown mixed with grey; abdomen grej'-brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, the costal area sutfiised with grej^ and fuscous, the inner area with purp


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 514 Iv'OCXTJTD^. h. Fore -wing with the orbicular and reniform ahnost obsolete. a}. Fore wiug dull brown irrorated with whitish californica. b^. Fore wing dull brown suifused witJi black insinuata. 2744. HomoglaBa carbonaria. (Plate CVII. fig. 25.) Litlwjohane carbonaria, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 55 (1876); Smith, Cat, Noet. N. Am. p. 230. Head aud thorax purplish brown mixed with grey; abdomen grej'-brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, the costal area sutfiised with grej^ and fuscous, the inner area with purplish rufous ; subbasal line represented by a faint striga from eosta; antemedial line very indistinctly double, oblique, slightly waved ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ill-defined grey annuli, the former round; a slight curved medial line; postmedial line very indistinctly double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish slightly defined by brown on inner side and with two minute dentate black marks below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight brown lunules. Hind wing grey with a faint purplish tinge, uniformly suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; the cilia pale; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule. Hah. Canada, Calgary (WoUey-Dod), 1 (^; , Oregon, Colorado (Bruce, Ooclcerell), 2 (S, Berkeley (Oslar), 1 (5", 1 $, California. ^a7p. 42-44 millim. Larva. Head slightly bilobed, shining light brown, with dark reticulation and curved vertical band which joins below a large patch before ocelli. Body a little enlarged at joint 12, light brown, thickly mottled and dotted with dark brown, nearly without marks ; dorsal line narrow, straight, whitish ; subdorsal line similar but more obscure; substigmatal line faintl}^ indicated by its upper edge; cervical shield brown, not shining, with very faint


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