. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 470 NOCTUIBiE. or dark l)ro\vn ; hair on pectus dark hrown : abdomen ochreous with dark l)aiids or almost wliolly suffused with dark brown. Foro wiuiX varyiui^ from ])ale grey-brown to bright rufous or dark purple- brown sulTused Avith grey and irrorated with l)rown, the veins wliitish ; line very indistinct, double, from costa to sub- median fold with l)lack point beyond it in cell; antemedial lino double, rufous tilled in with pale colour or greyish, slightly angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell, then obl
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 470 NOCTUIBiE. or dark l)ro\vn ; hair on pectus dark hrown : abdomen ochreous with dark l)aiids or almost wliolly suffused with dark brown. Foro wiuiX varyiui^ from ])ale grey-brown to bright rufous or dark purple- brown sulTused Avith grey and irrorated with l)rown, the veins wliitish ; line very indistinct, double, from costa to sub- median fold with l)lack point beyond it in cell; antemedial lino double, rufous tilled in with pale colour or greyish, slightly angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell, then obliquely excurved; orbicular and I'eniform moderate with dark brown centres and pale annuli slightly defined by brown ; a diffused rufous medial line. "^^^i? Fig. 161.— Omphaloscdis limosa, (f. {. oblique from costa to median nervure, then slightly waved ; post- medial line double tilled in with pale colour or greyish, bent out- wards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area sometimes with the interspaces suffused Avith dark brown ; sub- terminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by two dentate black spots below costa, then by a series of small spots or points, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a series of slight points just before termen ; cilia intersected with dark brown. Hind wing white more or less irrorated and suft'used with fuscous brown, a blackish discoidal luuule and dift'used maculate subtermiual band, sometimes mostly suffused with fuscous ; the underside white irrorated Avith brown, a large discoidal spot, in- distinct curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. Bah. Britain (Barrett), Leech Coll; France, iSand and Frey Colls. ; Spain. Castile, Aragon; Algeria. 34-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 348, pi. 228. f. 2. Yellow-brown or green; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale or whitish ; spiracular line whitish, brown-edged above; tubercles large, black. Fo
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