. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 440 NOCTIJID^. rufous terminal line ; abdomen red-brown with slight dark irrora- tion, the base greyish, the ventral surface and legs brighter rufous. Fore wing red-brown suftused with purplish grey and irrorated with black; subbasal line represented by a slight blackish striga from costa with a point beyond it in cell; antemedial line blackish slightly defined by grey on inner side, very oblique and slightly excurved below costa and at vein 1; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform large with pale grey aunul
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 440 NOCTIJID^. rufous terminal line ; abdomen red-brown with slight dark irrora- tion, the base greyish, the ventral surface and legs brighter rufous. Fore wing red-brown suftused with purplish grey and irrorated with black; subbasal line represented by a slight blackish striga from costa with a point beyond it in cell; antemedial line blackish slightly defined by grey on inner side, very oblique and slightly excurved below costa and at vein 1; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform large with pale grey aunuli, the former round, the latter elliptical; postmedial line pale grey with black points on its inner edge, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line indistinct, pale with slight dark suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it somewhat paler; a terminal series of brown lunules. Hind wing red-brown, the base slightly paler, the terminal area rather darker; cilia rufous, whitish at tips ; the underside pale tinged with pink and irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and slightly sinuous postmedial line. Hah. , California, 1 5 type. Exp. 42 millim. Larva. Dyar, Proc. Eut. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 324 (1899). Head bilobed, broader than high, shining brown with broad dark brown curved vertical band and distinct reticulations. Body greenish thickly mottled with brown; dorsal line narrow, white ; substigmatal line broad, filled with red mottlings; cervical shield brown, not polished, slightly darker than body, cut by white dorsal and subdorsal lines ; anal plate concolorous with body ; spiracles white with black rims. Food-plants : Oak and Wild Cherry.âH. Gf. D. Sect. II. Antenna of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 2647. Psectraglsea pilifera. Agrostis 2nlifera, Wlk. x. 343 (1856). S. Head and thorax deep reddish brown; abdomen rather greyer brown, the hair on claspers rufous. Fore wing dark reddish. Fi
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