. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. BOMBOTELIA. 7 Sect. I. AntenntB of male bipectinate with uiodenite branches, the apical tliird ciliated. 6200. Bombotelia nugatrix. PeiiicUlaria nugatrix, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 303, pi. 14. f. 7 (1852); Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 394. Head, thorax, and abdomen deep purplish red-brown ; tegulaa slightly edged with grey; prothorax with a slight grey line across it; tarsi slightly ringed with whitish. Fore wnng deep purplish red-brown ; subbasal line double, blackish filled in with brownish grey, slightly angled outwaids b
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. BOMBOTELIA. 7 Sect. I. AntenntB of male bipectinate with uiodenite branches, the apical tliird ciliated. 6200. Bombotelia nugatrix. PeiiicUlaria nugatrix, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 303, pi. 14. f. 7 (1852); Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 394. Head, thorax, and abdomen deep purplish red-brown ; tegulaa slightly edged with grey; prothorax with a slight grey line across it; tarsi slightly ringed with whitish. Fore wnng deep purplish red-brown ; subbasal line double, blackish filled in with brownish grey, slightly angled outwaids below costa, then obli(]ue to vein 1 at base ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with brownish, grey, obliquely excurved from costa to just below the cell, then inwardly oblique ; reniforra blackish brown defiued by grey, rather constricted at middle ; vein 3 slightly streaked with grey ; post- medial line double, blackish filled in with grey, slightly bent outwards below costa, then somewhat sinuous, oblique to vein 4, inwardly oblique to vein 2 and outwardly to inner margin, a faint. Fig. 4.—Bomhotelia nugatrix, J', f. whitish line beyond it, oblique from costa to discal fold, waved to vein 3, then incurved ; subtcrminal line whitish with an oblique rufous baud before it from costa to discal fold, where it is bent inwards, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved and ending at tornus. Hind wing white, the terminal area purplish brown, a rufous patch on extremity of vein 2 with some whitish below^ it on termen ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules and fine whitish line at base of cilia ; the underside irroratcd with red-brown, the costal and terminal areas purplish red-brown, a large black discoidal spot defined by white, double curved postmedial line with black points before it on the veins, and waved subterminal line with yellowish marks beyond it. Hah. Punjab, Almorah (Boi/s), 1 J , 3 $ , Jubbulpur (F. Butler), 1 5 , Manpuri, 1 J . Exp. 2G-30 milHm. Sect.
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