. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ALA. 11 1. Ala picteti. Ala picteti, Stand, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 49; Alph. Hor. Soc. Eat. Eoss. xvii. p. 89, pi. 3. f. 61 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey; abdomen black with some grej- hairs. Fore wing brown, almost entirely sufiused with grey but leaving the inner margin dark ; a curved dark sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line curved, with the more or less developed black-brown claviform on its outer edge and sometimes also a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ALA. 11 1. Ala picteti. Ala picteti, Stand, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 49; Alph. Hor. Soc. Eat. Eoss. xvii. p. 89, pi. 3. f. 61 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey; abdomen black with some grej- hairs. Fore wing brown, almost entirely sufiused with grey but leaving the inner margin dark ; a curved dark sub- basal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line curved, with the more or less developed black-brown claviform on its outer edge and sometimes also a small elliptical grey-centred orbicular stigma,: reniform with greyish centre defined by black-brown, its inner edge angled inwards on median nervure, placed on a distinct. 'Pig.'3.~Ala picteti, S- h brown medial shade; postmedial line indistinct, grey, oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled, incurved below vein 4 ; snbter- minal line grey, slightly defined by brown on inner side and the area beyond it rather browner, minutely waved, angled inwards below costa and in submedian fold, slightly incurved at discal fold ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing white, irrorated with fuscous especially towards base ; veins and a discoidal lunule fuscous ; the inner area and a broad terminal band fuscous black, the latter with its inner edge sometimes incurved at discal fold ; cilia white. Underside white irrorated with fuscous, both wings with dark discoidal lunule and broad terminal band. Hah. W. TuKKESTAif, Turcomania, 1 S , Ala Tan, Issyk-kul, 2 c? ; E. TcEKESTAN, Kuldja, Korla. ^'.rjj. 26-28 millim. *2. Ala pretiosa. Ala 2>retlosa, Alph. Hor. Sdc. Ent. Eoss. xxvi. p. 453 (1892); id. Eom. Mem. ix. p. 38, pi. 3. f. 8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with olive and grey hair. Fore wing grey irrorated with olive, the basal, costal, and inner areas dark olive-brown ; stigmata black-brown defined by whitish, the orbicular and claviform sma
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