. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 498 KOCTUIDiE. (BusJie), 1 2 , Br. Columbia, Sieamous Junction (3Hss Ricardo), 2 S , 2 5 , Vancouver (IlawMns), 1 $ , Wellington (Taylor), 1 $ ; , Northern, Eastern and Central States, New York (Bouhleday), 2 c? type, Center (W. Hill), 4 c?, 3 $ type v-hrunneum, Lewis Co. (W. Hill), 1 5, Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 1 c?, Washington Terr., 1 5 > Colorado. Eaji. 46-52 millim. Larva. Head shining, light brown. Body uniform, red-brown, slightly mottled with faint oblique streaks; substigmatal ban
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 498 KOCTUIDiE. (BusJie), 1 2 , Br. Columbia, Sieamous Junction (3Hss Ricardo), 2 S , 2 5 , Vancouver (IlawMns), 1 $ , Wellington (Taylor), 1 $ ; , Northern, Eastern and Central States, New York (Bouhleday), 2 c? type, Center (W. Hill), 4 c?, 3 $ type v-hrunneum, Lewis Co. (W. Hill), 1 5, Pennsylvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 1 c?, Washington Terr., 1 5 > Colorado. Eaji. 46-52 millim. Larva. Head shining, light brown. Body uniform, red-brown, slightly mottled with faint oblique streaks; substigmatal band pale, badly defined ; no contrasted marks, all much the colour of dead leaves. Eood-plants, various.^—H. G. J), Genus HABEYNTIS. Type, Habrt/ntis, Led. Noct. Eur. pp. 35 & 114 (1857) sciia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturnecl, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the ^rd short; frons smooth with large tuft of hair; eyes lai-ge, round ; antennae of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only, the tegnlse produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with triangular crest, the metathorax with paired crests ; tibise fringed with long hair; abdomen clothed with rough hair at base, with dorsal series of crests formed of hair only and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex obliquely truncate, the termen and cUia dentate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 froni cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anatomosing with •the ceil near base only. 3358. Habryiitis scita. Noctua scita, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. 2, p. 35, pi. 1 a (1791); id. Ear Schmett., Noct. ff. 68, 475; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 337, pi. 94. ff. 1, 2; Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. pi. 105; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Head and thorax white suffused with
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