. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. -00 xocrnoa. pome blnck at Imso nnd black tips: pntapia black on outer side; mes(>- and metaihoracic crests black; tibiic and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ]tale fjreenish irroratt-d with black and with dorsal black patches. Fore winp pale brij^ht green ; some black at base of Costa; subbasal line oblir|ucly curved, formed by small black spots below costa and cell and diffused black on inner margin at base; antcmedial line from costa close to subbasal line, formed b)' small black spots below costa and cell, and a line fr
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. -00 xocrnoa. pome blnck at Imso nnd black tips: pntapia black on outer side; mes(>- and metaihoracic crests black; tibiic and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ]tale fjreenish irroratt-d with black and with dorsal black patches. Fore winp pale brij^ht green ; some black at base of Costa; subbasal line oblir|ucly curved, formed by small black spots below costa and cell and diffused black on inner margin at base; antcmedial line from costa close to subbasal line, formed b)' small black spots below costa and cell, and a line from submedian fold to inner margin angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reni- from rather (juadrate, defined by black at sides, open above and. Fig. 56.—Momaphana comstocci, J below and with black patches between them and beyond the latter extending to postmedial line; nudial line represented by a striga from costa, a curved bar from cell to submedian fold with black suffusion beyond it to postmedial line and a striga at inner margin; postmedial line formed by a strong oblique black bar from costa, then dentate, excurved at middle and incurved below vein 3, with some black beyond it in submedian interspace; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered black and green. Hind wing pale green, tlic terminal half irrorated with black, some of the scales forming a diffused subtermiiial band; the underside with diffused antemedial lino angled outwards below costa and at vein 1, a large discoidal lunule, a diffused ])Ostmedia] line angled outwards at middle. 2 . Hind wing more suffused with fuscous. Hah. Canada, Orilla (Bitsh), 1 $ ; , Xew York, 1 cf type. 40 millim. 2340. Momaphana februalis. (Plate CT. fig. 15.) Feralia febriia/is, Grote, Bull. BiiflT. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 60 (1874): Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 33. cJ. Head and thorax emerald-green ; palpi and frons black at sides ; antenna; pale fulvous, whitish at base ; tegula) witli somo black and white
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