. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 592 NOCTUIDJE. 8444. Mouralia tinctoides, Ahrostola tinctoides, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 323 (1852\ Mouralia annulifera, Wlk. xv. 1803 (1858); Druce, Biol. Centr-Am Het. ii. p. 462, pi. 91. f. 10. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown, tlie patagia and sides of metathorax grey mixed with dark brown ; pectus and legs_ brownish grey, the hind tibia? with diffused blackish band, the tarsi banded blackish and whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing fuscous mixed with
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 592 NOCTUIDJE. 8444. Mouralia tinctoides, Ahrostola tinctoides, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 323 (1852\ Mouralia annulifera, Wlk. xv. 1803 (1858); Druce, Biol. Centr-Am Het. ii. p. 462, pi. 91. f. 10. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown, tlie patagia and sides of metathorax grey mixed with dark brown ; pectus and legs_ brownish grey, the hind tibia? with diffused blackish band, the tarsi banded blackish and whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing fuscous mixed with grey-white ; a pale brown patch on basal costal area; antemedial Hne double, black, the inner hne indistinct, filled m with purple-brown and Avith some purple-brown beyond it, shghtly bent inwards to costa and inner margin; orbicular, reniform, and a. Fig. 129.—Mourcdia tinctoides, (^. }. spot below the cell just beyond the former large, rounded, defined by black with slight tufts of raised scales on their edges, their centres grey slightly defined by fuscous ; postmedial line black, strongly bent outwards below costa and oblique to below vein 7, then incurved, excurved double and filled in with whitish below submedian fold, some purple-brown before and beyond it except towards costa and inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by fuscous and with purplish fuscous suffusion before it except below vein 3, slightly waved, vdth black streaks before and beyond it above veins 7, 6 ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia greyish with a waved fuscous line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown with a cupreous tinge, the interspaces of basal half whitish; cilia white, tinged with brown at base; the underside with the costal area brown irrorated with grey to beyond middle, a slight discoidal lunule. Hah. Mexico, Jalapa {Triijillo), 1 $ , ilodman-Salvin Coll.; Haiti {Ttoeedie), 1 S type annulifera; Brazil, Neue Friburg,- S. Pe
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