. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 568 NOCTUID^. B. Palpi with the Srd joint much shorter than the 2nd. a. Mid and hind tibise of male fringed with verjr long hair on outer side ; hind wing with fringe of long hair below the cell on underside. 5851. Eustrotia metalopliota. JBarasa mefalophota, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 452 (1898). Head and thorax white mixed with some brown, the tips of tegulse rufous, the patagia with dark patches ; palpi and antennae brown; pectus and legs ochreous white, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white; abdomen ochreou
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 568 NOCTUID^. B. Palpi with the Srd joint much shorter than the 2nd. a. Mid and hind tibise of male fringed with verjr long hair on outer side ; hind wing with fringe of long hair below the cell on underside. 5851. Eustrotia metalopliota. JBarasa mefalophota, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 452 (1898). Head and thorax white mixed with some brown, the tips of tegulse rufous, the patagia with dark patches ; palpi and antennae brown; pectus and legs ochreous white, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white; abdomen ochreous suffused with brown, the basal crest tipped with black; the underside black in male except at extremity. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with fuscous; a diffused brown subbasal line; a diffused black-brown patch on antemedial costal area; antemedial line black, angled outwards below costa and strongly on median nervure, excurved at vein 1 ; claviform defined by black and running obliquely downwards from the angle of antemedial line ; reniform large, white defined by black with some ochreous and a black discoidal striga in centre,. Fig. 160.âEustrotia metalofhota, S â \- an oblique black bar above it from costa ; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa, minutely dentate at veins 6, 4, 3, then bent inwards to inner edge of reniform, and white strongly defined on each side by black to inner margin, a sinuous brown line beyond it from costa to vein 4 and some white points on the brown costa; subterminal line white defined on inner side by black spots and minute streaks, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at submedian fold, black streaks beyond it below veins 7, 6, 5 ; a terminal series of small black spots defined by white lunules ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia more ochreous; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, the fringe of hair in male ochreous, a dark discoidal spot, postmedial line
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