. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 198 NOCTTTIDJE. green sparsely irrorated with black on medial area ; some black at base of costa ; subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; antemedial line strong, black, double, waved, angled inwards in cell and on vein 1; claviform large, defined by black except above and with black mark in centre ; orbicular and reniform large wdth whitish annuli defined by black and connected by two black streaks in cell, the former quadrate, open above and below, the latter open above and slightly ang
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 198 NOCTTTIDJE. green sparsely irrorated with black on medial area ; some black at base of costa ; subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; antemedial line strong, black, double, waved, angled inwards in cell and on vein 1; claviform large, defined by black except above and with black mark in centre ; orbicular and reniform large wdth whitish annuli defined by black and connected by two black streaks in cell, the former quadrate, open above and below, the latter open above and slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a medial line from claviform to inner margin, angled outwards on vein 1; postmedial line double, black filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, below vein 4 obliquely incurved to below reniform, some black and white points on costa beyond it; subterminal line represented by a black bar from costa and patch above tornus ; a terminal series of minute black lunules defined by white on inner side ; cilia chequered green and black with the tips of green parts Avhitish. Hind wing pale wholly suff'used with fuscous brown; cilia white intersected with fuscous ; the underside with whitish streaks and marks in the inter- spaces, a blackish streak in cell, large discoidal spot and obliquely curved postmedial Fig. 55.—Feralia Jocosa, S. \. 2 . Hind wing blacker. Ab. 1. Fore wing wholly suff'used with black except terminal area, leaving some green below base of costa, the claviform, orbi- cular and reniform, and a streak from upper extremity of latter green. Mab. , New Hampshire, New York, 1 (S, 2 2 type. New Jersey. Exjo. 38-40 millim. Larva. Seifert, J. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 182. Deep glossy pea-green, very transparent; head and legs yellowish green; cervical shield and dorsal hump on 11th somite brighter green; dorsal and lateral stripes white, finely wrinkled, the former expanding at middle of abdominal somite
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