. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 582 KOCTUID^. 8432. Palffioplusia ventista. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 24.) Fluda venusta, Wlk. xxxiii. 836 (1865); Ottolengui, J. Ent. Soc. x. pi. Tii. f. 11 ; Smitb, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248. Plusia striaiella, Grote, Bull. Euff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1873). Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; antennse rufous ; patagia with oblique rufous bars at base edged behind by whitish ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing bright rufous; the costal area ochreous, broadly bej^ond the cell where it extends to vein 5; the inner area
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 582 KOCTUID^. 8432. Palffioplusia ventista. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 24.) Fluda venusta, Wlk. xxxiii. 836 (1865); Ottolengui, J. Ent. Soc. x. pi. Tii. f. 11 ; Smitb, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248. Plusia striaiella, Grote, Bull. Euff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1873). Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; antennse rufous ; patagia with oblique rufous bars at base edged behind by whitish ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing bright rufous; the costal area ochreous, broadly bej^ond the cell where it extends to vein 5; the inner area ochreous, extending to just above vein 1, which is. Fig. 127.—Falceopluda venusta, J. \. streaked with rufous, except at base; a silvery-white streak from below middle of cell to near termen above vein 2 ; a black point at upper angle of cell; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner side by an ochreous line except towards tornus, the rufous curving upwards on its inner side to below apex; cilia ochreous, the tips pale rufous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with glossy brown; a slight ochreous line before the fine terminal brown line; cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the terminal half faintly tinged with rufous except towards tornus, a slight brown discoidal lunule. Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 1 5 type, Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Dod), 2 6 ; , Maine, New York, 2 J, Distr. of Columbia. I^xp. 34-38 millim. Genus ABEOSTOLA. Abrostola, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 88 (1816), non clescr.; Type. Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 96 (1829) triplada. Inguridia, Butl. A. M. IN. H. (5) iv. p. 354 (1879) abrostolina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd rather long; frons smooth with large tuft of hair, a flattened tuft of hair between antennas; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia; antennse of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the uieso
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