. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. MORKISONIA. 383 represented by double black sfcrijc from costa ; the antemedial line with a dark striga from cosfa, then indistinct and strongly angled outwards above vein 1 and inner margin ; claviform incompletely defined by black ; orbicular a^d reniform with obscure ochreous annuli incompletely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical; the postraedial line" strongly dentate, black defined by ochreous on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. MORKISONIA. 383 represented by double black sfcrijc from costa ; the antemedial line with a dark striga from cosfa, then indistinct and strongly angled outwards above vein 1 and inner margin ; claviform incompletely defined by black ; orbicular a^d reniform with obscure ochreous annuli incompletely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical; the postraedial line" strongly dentate, black defined by ochreous on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very obscurely defined by the. Morrisonia confusa, rj. area beyond it being slightly darker, with blackish streaks in the interspaces, running obliquely to apex, and with pale dentate marks on veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia intersected with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, especially on terminal area ; the veins dark ; a dark terminal line; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a diseoidal spot and curved postmedial series of strise on the veins. Hah. Canaba ; , Eastern States, 3 c? type infructuosa, Texas, 1 (S, California. ^. 40 millim. Larva. Head round, shining light red-brown, reticulate in lighter and paler over the clypeus. Body shaded in vinous red, with a rounded, quadrate, deep vinous patch laterally above the spiracle on joints 2 to 12. Fine white dorsal, lateral, and suprastigmatal lines. Shields not chitinized, concolorous ; spiracles white, finely black-rimmed. Food-plants : Willow, etc.—H. G. D. 1694. Morrisonia lignana. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 3.) Hadena lignana, WLk. xi. 758 (1857); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 26, ph v. f. 19. Head and thorax brownish grey slightly mixed with rufous ; tegulge and patagia with black lines near upper edge ; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with
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