. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. <0 'HOCTVIDJE. abdomen ochreous mixed with red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown, and with some rufous at base of costa and inner margin, in submedian fold, and in discal fold from middle of cell to near siibterminal line; a slight black streak at base of rein 1 followed by others on subcostal and median nervures and in submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, gre}"^, strongly angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold, inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. <0 'HOCTVIDJE. abdomen ochreous mixed with red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown, and with some rufous at base of costa and inner margin, in submedian fold, and in discal fold from middle of cell to near siibterminal line; a slight black streak at base of rein 1 followed by others on subcostal and median nervures and in submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, gre}"^, strongly angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold, inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1 ; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former irregularly obIi(]ue elliptical, with dark point at centre, the latter a large narrow lunule, with brown line at centre and with its lower edge angled inwards on median nervure to the orbicular; jjostmedial line very indistinct, dentate, with darker points at the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by rufous, with irregular rather dentate black marks, longest below veins 5 and 2, the line angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing white, with traces of diffused subterminal band or wholly suffused and irrorated with brown ; the underside with the costal and termiiial areas irrorated with brown. Hab. , Colorado (Bruce), 1 $, Durango {Oslai-), 1 J. Exjy. 54 millim. 1223. Polia purpurissata. Eurois purpurissata, Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 82, pi. 1. f. 5 (1864); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 114. Mamestra crydina, Djar, Can. Eiit. 1904, p. 32. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons Avitli two black bars ; teguhe with black medial line ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with brown, and suffused with dark brow
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