. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 44S 8270. Pseudeva purpurigera. Devapurpurif/era, Wlk. xr. 1791 (1858); Ottolengui, J. Ent. Soe. X. pi. vii. f. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 24(). Head and thorax red-browm mixed with yellow and pink; antennae whitish; pectus behind and hind legs whitish; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown, the crests red-brown. Fore wing yellow suffused with rufous and in parts with pink and sparsely iiTorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a slight red-brown striga from costa and small dark spot below the cell,
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 44S 8270. Pseudeva purpurigera. Devapurpurif/era, Wlk. xr. 1791 (1858); Ottolengui, J. Ent. Soe. X. pi. vii. f. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 24(). Head and thorax red-browm mixed with yellow and pink; antennae whitish; pectus behind and hind legs whitish; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown, the crests red-brown. Fore wing yellow suffused with rufous and in parts with pink and sparsely iiTorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a slight red-brown striga from costa and small dark spot below the cell, a curved red-brown shade beyond it from costa ; anteraedial line indistinct, double, red- brown, oblique, slightly bent outwards at median nervure; orbicular. Fig. 113.—Pi-eiulcva piirpuriffem, (^. slightly defined by blackish brown, rather diamond-shaped; reni- form incompletely defined by blackish brown, narrow and strongly constricted at middle ; antemedial line double, red-brown, excurved to below vein 7, then oblique and with a small black spot on its outer edge at snbmedian fold, defined on outer side by an oblique pinkish shade arising from apex ; subterminal line blackish, excm'ved below costa. angled outwards above vein 3, and ending at tornus; a fine blackish terminal line except towards tornus, defined on inner side by a 2>ink line to vein -1; some golden suffusion at middle of terminal area and on inner area towards tornus. Hind wing white tinged with cupreous brown except on costal area to near apex, the terminal area slightly darker; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner side by a white line to vein 2 ; cilia white ; the underside white slightly irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal ])oint, slight curved postmedial line, and somewhat diffused subterminal line. JIab. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Bush). 1 d type; ,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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