. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 336 NOCTUID^. purplish rod and black on vertex of head; thorax purplish red mixed with dark brown, metathoracic crest black; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous, irrorated with black on dorsal surface. Fore wing purplish pink; a double, waved subbasal black line from costa to submediau fold ; the antemedial area ochreous except towards costa and inner margin; antemedial line double, arising from small black points on costa, oblique to median nervure, incurved in submedian interspace, angled outwards above inner margin,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 336 NOCTUID^. purplish rod and black on vertex of head; thorax purplish red mixed with dark brown, metathoracic crest black; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous, irrorated with black on dorsal surface. Fore wing purplish pink; a double, waved subbasal black line from costa to submediau fold ; the antemedial area ochreous except towards costa and inner margin; antemedial line double, arising from small black points on costa, oblique to median nervure, incurved in submedian interspace, angled outwards above inner margin, and with double black points before it on median nervure and vein 1 ; the cell ochreous on medial area ; orbicular and reni- form dark chocolate with ochreous annuli defined by brown, the former small, oblique oblong, the latter produced to a point at upper extremity and angled inwards on median nervure ; a waved medial line; postmedial line double, produced to black and grey points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line ochreous, defined on inner side by minute somewhat dentate rufous marks with an ochreous band before them, the area beyond them fuscous brown with rufous streaks on the veins, the line slightly exeurved between veins 7 and 2 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous white, suffused with fuscous brown on costal and terminal areas; the cilia ochreous ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Mexico, Guadalajara, 1 S, type t d" in Coll. Schaus. Exp, 30 millim. c^. Fore wing of male on underside without downturned hair in cell. a^. Hind wing of male on underside with the basal area clothed and the inner margin fringed with long hair and spatulate scales. 1621. Eriopyga albipuncta. eta, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. See, , Het. ii. p. 485. <S. Head and thorax dark brown; t
Size: 2613px × 956px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmoths, bookyear1898
