. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 354 KOCXUIDiE. and black scales; subbasal line double, black filled in -with gve}\ waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled in with greenish, waved, angled inwards in cell a,nd on vein 1 ; claviform slight, faintly defined by a few dark scales ; orbicular and reniform with red-brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black,- the former somewhat elliptical, the latter with slight pale lunule in centre; a waved black medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, strongly bent out


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 354 KOCXUIDiE. and black scales; subbasal line double, black filled in -with gve}\ waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled in with greenish, waved, angled inwards in cell a,nd on vein 1 ; claviform slight, faintly defined by a few dark scales ; orbicular and reniform with red-brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black,- the former somewhat elliptical, the latter with slight pale lunule in centre; a waved black medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate, angled outwards at vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by blackish, waved, forming a slight tooth inwards below vein 4 and a strong white tooth below vein 3, the area beyond it sap-green ; a terminal series of small. Fig. 116.— Vale7'ia jaspidea, (^. {. black lunules ; cilia red-brown with ochreous-white points at base and waved line through them. Hind wing ochreous white; a slightly sinuous brown postmedial line ; the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; a whitish subterminal line, almost obsolete except towards tornus and with blackish point beyond it at extremity of vein 2 ; cilia brown with fine pale waved line at base and pale tips; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule with brown mark from it to costa, postmedial line strong, rather punctiform, angled outwards at discal fold, then oblique, the apical area suff'used with brown, a terminal series of small black lunules. Hah. France, Sand Coll.; Gebmant, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Switzerland ; Spaik, Bilbao, Andalusia. Exp. 46 millim. Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 220; Hffm. Eaup. p. 95, pi. 27. f. 4. Pale brown : 1st somite orange in front followed by a series of dark dots, thoracic somites with dark striae; abdominal somites marbled with brown, th


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