. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. LITHOPHANE. 245 2394. Lithophane socia. Noctm socia, Eott. Naturf. ix. p. 142 (1776); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. Noctua 'petrificcda, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 75 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 182 (1787); Dup. Lep. Fr. iii. p. 370, pi. 31. f. 3; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 171, pi. 23. f. 1. Noctua iKtrificosci, Hiibn. Ear. Scbmett., Noct. f. 239 (1827). Lithophane petrolignea, Hiibn. Verz. p. 242 (1827). Head and thorax greyish ochreous tinged with rufons ; palpi with, black lateral stripe ; frons
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. LITHOPHANE. 245 2394. Lithophane socia. Noctm socia, Eott. Naturf. ix. p. 142 (1776); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. Noctua 'petrificcda, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 75 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 182 (1787); Dup. Lep. Fr. iii. p. 370, pi. 31. f. 3; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 171, pi. 23. f. 1. Noctua iKtrificosci, Hiibn. Ear. Scbmett., Noct. f. 239 (1827). Lithophane petrolignea, Hiibn. Verz. p. 242 (1827). Head and thorax greyish ochreous tinged with rufons ; palpi with, black lateral stripe ; frons with black bar; tegulae with black line near tips; patagia with some black scales near upper edge; tibise streaked with black; abdomen greyish ochreous dorsally tinged with brown, ventrally with rufous. Pore wing greyish ochreous tinged with rufous, the inner half often suffused with. Fig. 80.—Litlioplmne socia, i$. \. purplish fuscous ; a brown streak below base of cell; subbasal line represented by a slight oblique pale striga from costa ; antemedial line represented by double black points on the veins with traces of a pale dentate line beyond them strongly angled outwards in submedian fold; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform indistinct, pale, the former very oblique elliptical, the latter with its lower edge defined by a pale streak with brown below it; postmedial line represented by a double series of black points on the veins, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4 and strongly incurved and forming a pale lunule in sub- median fold ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, somewhat dentate, angled outwards to termen at veins 4, 3, and with slight dentate brown marks before it at middle and in submedian interspace, the extremity of the veins with dark streaks. Hind wing ochreous whitish suffused with brown; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside j)ale, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a diseoidal lunule and oblique postmedial line incurv
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