. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 676 NOCTUID^. round ; antenuaB of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed ahnost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibiie smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a longitudinally narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from just
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 676 NOCTUID^. round ; antenuaB of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed ahnost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibiie smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a longitudinally narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. Sect. I. Frons with the plate at middle long and trilobate at tip, the plate below frons trilobate. 6021. Graeperia tripartita. Tornacontia tripartita, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 210 (1903). Tornacontia mediatrix, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. vi. p. 62 (1904). Head and thorax brown mixed with some black and white, the palpi white except at tips ; thorax white with black bars at sides of metathorax; fore and mid tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally with black. Pore wing creamy white with large dark patch on inner area beyond middle ; the basal area with some brownish irroration ; subbasal line represented by slight dark points on costa and in cell; antemedial line very indistinct, double, curved; orbicular a black point, the reniform defined by black, hoop-shaped, opeii below, some blue-grey on its outer edge ; a small dark spot at middle of costa and a sinuous black line from cell to inner margin with a brown. Fig. 190. — Graperia tripartita, <^. band irrorated with white beyond it; postmedial line represented by a small dark spot on costa, then almost obsolete, below vein 4 bent inwards to lower angle of cell, then forming a sinuous black line to inner margin with blue-grey suffusion beyond it; sub- te
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