. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. THTSETTCA. 445 A. Fore wing blue-grey • caindea. B. Fore wiug purplisli red, the hind wing purplish pink vindemmlis. C. Fore wing rufous, the hind wing reddish ochreous micrasta. t 1786, Physetica caerulea. Agrotis ciemlea, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 38 (1868); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 8, pi. iv. f. 7. S. Head and thorax blue-grey irrorated with whitish; palpi below, pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous yellow, the dorsal crest grey. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with whitish ; subbasal line indi


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. THTSETTCA. 445 A. Fore wing blue-grey • caindea. B. Fore wiug purplisli red, the hind wing purplish pink vindemmlis. C. Fore wing rufous, the hind wing reddish ochreous micrasta. t 1786, Physetica caerulea. Agrotis ciemlea, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 38 (1868); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 8, pi. iv. f. 7. S. Head and thorax blue-grey irrorated with whitish; palpi below, pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous yellow, the dorsal crest grey. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with whitish ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from coRta to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; faint traces of orbicular and reniform stigmata defined by white; an indistinct medial shade; postmedial line. Fig. 123.—Pki/setica canilea, J. \. indistinct, double, dentate and produced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a whitish subterminal line slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous, the basal and inner areas yellowish; under- side yellowish white. 2 . "With less of the yellow tinge. Hab. Xew Zealand, (J. J. Walker) 1 J, 1 5, Marlborough (SheIlo7i, Marsdeu, Uatheiu), 2 ^, 1 $, N. Island, Wellington, S. Island, Blenheim, Eakaia. 44 millim. 1787. Physetica vindemialis. (Plate XCI. fig. 2.) Ceramica vindemialis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 344 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 205. 2 . Head and thorax purple-red, the hairs slightly tipped with grey (abdomen wanting). Fore wing purple-red, very slightly irrorated with grey; subbasal line obsolete; faint traces of a curved greyish antemedial line ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform repre- sented by traces of a discoidal lunule and fuscous spot at lower angle of cell; traces of a dentate postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, excurved


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