. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. UBITHYS. 449 the area before it pale rufous except towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black. (From Moths lud. vol. ii.) lunules. Hind wing pure white, the costal area tinged with fuscous and in female the terminal area also. Hah. Punjab, Allahabad; Ceylon {Templeton), 2 c?, 1 5» Trincomalee {Yerhiiry), 1 S ; Burma, Moulmein {Cleric), 1 $ ; SiNGAPOiiE {liidleij), 1 5 ; Java (Norsjield), 5 cj", 3 § . Eu,-p. 32-46 millim. Larva. Head, first and last, somite, and legs
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. UBITHYS. 449 the area before it pale rufous except towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black. (From Moths lud. vol. ii.) lunules. Hind wing pure white, the costal area tinged with fuscous and in female the terminal area also. Hah. Punjab, Allahabad; Ceylon {Templeton), 2 c?, 1 5» Trincomalee {Yerhiiry), 1 S ; Burma, Moulmein {Cleric), 1 $ ; SiNGAPOiiE {liidleij), 1 5 ; Java (Norsjield), 5 cj", 3 § . Eu,-p. 32-46 millim. Larva. Head, first and last, somite, and legs j'ellow ; the rest brown, with dorsal and subdorsal series of yellowish-white spots, those on posterior edge of somites rather smaller ; somite 4 without anterior spots and 5 with the dorsal spot only; subdorsal Avhito points on somites 4 to 8 ; lateral and ventral bands each on part of two somites ; wart vi. on somites 4-8 on white spots. Food-plants, Liliacea'. 1792. Brithys encausta. Nochia encausta, Hi'ibu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 392 (1827); Dup. L6p. Fr. vi. p. 78, pi. 86. f. 3 ; Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 291 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 154. Head and thorax ; tcgulae with black medial line ; prothorax with black patch ; abdomen white, flesh-coloured below. Fore wing white tinged with tlesh-colour, leaving the costal area from before middle whiter; antemedial line indistinct, waved, often nearl}' oblique from costa to below cell; claviform some- times slightly defined by black ; orbicular lepresented by a black streak, or obsolete ; reniform narrow, defined by blacli ; postmedial line dentate and produced to black points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line fuscous, obsolete towards costa, the area before it yellowish except towards costa, angled outwards at veiu 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white; female with the costal are
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