. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 102 N-QCTUID^. Sect. II. {Melideptria). Fore wing-of male normal. 167. Melicleptria scutosa. Koctua scutosa, Sebiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (177C)); Fabr. Mant. Ihs. ii. p. 142 (1787); Esp. Schmett- pi. 108. ff. 1, 2; Hiibn, Sebmett. Eur. Noct. f. 309 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f. 1; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221; Smitb. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. Heliothis nuchalis, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 68 (1878). Head and thorax clothed with g-reyish, olive, and dark brown hair: pectus and legs whitish, the latter
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 102 N-QCTUID^. Sect. II. {Melideptria). Fore wing-of male normal. 167. Melicleptria scutosa. Koctua scutosa, Sebiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (177C)); Fabr. Mant. Ihs. ii. p. 142 (1787); Esp. Schmett- pi. 108. ff. 1, 2; Hiibn, Sebmett. Eur. Noct. f. 309 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f. 1; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221; Smitb. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. Heliothis nuchalis, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 68 (1878). Head and thorax clothed with g-reyish, olive, and dark brown hair: pectus and legs whitish, the latter irrorated with dark brown; abdomen greyish irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing oehreous whitish, the marginal areas tinged with olive-brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a blackish streak below base of vein 1 ; the antemedial line minutely dentate to median nervure, then angled outwards to middle of wing below vein 1: stigmata olive-brown outlined with black, claviform large elliptical, orbicular round, reniform large; the postmcdial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, oblique to below vein 5, inwardly oblique to vein 3, then more erect, a brown band with pale points on costa between it and the whitish subterminal line, which is dentate inwards below costa, ex curved at middle and has some blackish. Fig, 33.—Mcliclcjjfria scutosa, c?. \. points on its inner edge; a terminal series of black and white striae. Hind -wing white, the veins streaked with brown ; a large black discoidal lunule ; the postmcdial line minutely waved, angled outwards at discal fold ; the terminal area broadly black-brown, its inner edge following the postmcdial line and with two pale subterminal spots at middle; cilia white, with brown line at base. Underside with the ground-colour white ; fore wing with the orbicular, reniform, and claviform black. Fore tibiae with long claw on inner side and spine on outer. Hcth. U
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