. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 102 NOCTUID^. Sect. II. {Melideptria). Fore wing of male normal. 167. Melicleptria scutosa. Nodua scutosa, Schift'. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1770); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 142 (1787); Esp. Schmett. pi. 108. ff. 1, 2; Hiibn. Schmett. Eur. f. 309 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f. 1; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175- Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. HeliotJiis nuchalis, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 68 (1878). Head and thorax clothed with grej-ish, olive, and dark brown hair: pectus and legs whi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 102 NOCTUID^. Sect. II. {Melideptria). Fore wing of male normal. 167. Melicleptria scutosa. Nodua scutosa, Schift'. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1770); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 142 (1787); Esp. Schmett. pi. 108. ff. 1, 2; Hiibn. Schmett. Eur. f. 309 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f. 1; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 175- Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. HeliotJiis nuchalis, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 68 (1878). Head and thorax clothed with grej-ish, 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 ochreous 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 Avith black, claviform large elliptical, orbicular round, reniform large; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, oblique to below vein 5, inw^ardly oblique to vein 3, then more erect, a broAvn 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 Fig. 33.—McUdcftna scutosa, (^. \. points on its inner edge; a terminal series of black and white striae. Hind wing white, the veins streaked with browm ; a large black discoidal lunule ; the postmedial line minutely waved, angled outwards at discal fold ; the terminal area broadly black-brown, its inner edge following the postmedial 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 tibise with long claw on inner side and spine
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