. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 456 NOCTIJTD^. 4151. Balsa tristrigella. GargazatrisirigeUa,yN\:'i%^^{\Q&b); Smith, Cat, Ncct. N. Am. p. 193. Asisijra zelleri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 169 (1873). Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; sido^s of palpi and frons blackish ; a black bar between antennae which are pale rufous ; tegulse with blackish band near tips ; legs blackish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale red-brown, the veins with prominent dar
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 456 NOCTIJTD^. 4151. Balsa tristrigella. GargazatrisirigeUa,yN\:'i%^^{\Q&b); Smith, Cat, Ncct. N. Am. p. 193. Asisijra zelleri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 169 (1873). Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; sido^s of palpi and frons blackish ; a black bar between antennae which are pale rufous ; tegulse with blackish band near tips ; legs blackish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale red-brown, the veins with prominent dark streaks; subbasal line represented by a slight black striga from costa, the antemedial line by an oblique black striga from costa and point on median nervure; stigmata absent; slight black streaks beyond the cell above and below vein 5 ; postmedial line very indistinct, brown faintly defined by whitish. Fig. 129.—Balsa tristrigella, (^. \ on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then obli(pae and strongly dentate, some slight black streaks beyond it on costa ; subterminal line absent; the interspaces of terminal area with slight black streaks; cilia whitish intersected with slight rufous streaks. Hind wing whitish tinged with pale red-brown ; cilia white; the underside white irrorated with red-brown, a slight dis- coidal spot with oblique dark mark above it from costa, and faint curved postmedial line. Bab. , Massachusetts, New York (Packard, Smith), 2 J, 2 2 , Schenectady (Lintner), 1 5 , Texas; Hab. ign., 1 d" type. Exp. 28 millim. 4152. Balsa lahecula. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 2.) lahecida, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 217 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 194. 5 . Head and thorax bluish white slightly mixed with brown; palpi brownish at sides; frons with slight lateral brown bars; teguli« wdth brown band at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen white slightly irrorated with black and with blackish dorsal marks on terminal segments. Fore win
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