. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. DicnoNiA. 293 clothed chiefly with scales, the tegulaj tlorsally produced to a ridge; the head, pro- and metathorax witli spreading crests ; pectus and tibia3 clothed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal aeries of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from uppe
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. DicnoNiA. 293 clothed chiefly with scales, the tegulaj tlorsally produced to a ridge; the head, pro- and metathorax witli spreading crests ; pectus and tibia3 clothed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal aeries of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- mosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antenna; of male ciliated. A. Fore wing with the terminal area blackish luhrica. B. Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous obliquisigna. 2459. Dichonia lubrica. Hadena luhrica, Butl. III. Het. B. M. vii. p. 60, pi. 128. f. 9 (1889); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 228. c? . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; palpi blackish at sides except at extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints; tegula) with black medial line ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with brownish fuscous and irrorated with black, the postmedial area paler, the terminal area darker; a sinuous black streak below base of cell; subbasal line double filled in with whitish, angled inwards in cell and ending at the black streak ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; clavi- form large, defined by black, rather acute at extremity, with black streak from it to postmedial line and bidentate white patch beyond. Fig. 87.—Dichonia lubrica, (^. \. it: orbicular and reniform large, greyish, defined by black, the former oblique elliptical; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some grey points beyond it on costa; subterminal line grey, faintly defined by dark scales on inner side, somewhat d
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