. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 320 NocrciD^. tinge; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing silky olive-brown; a fine pale subbasal waved line from costa to suhmedian fold ; antemedial line pale, oblique, angled outwards below costa, then sinuous ; orbicular and rcniform large, with fine white annuli, the former oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure and confluent wdtli the former; postmedial-line very indistinctly defined by grey on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 6 and from vein 4
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 320 NocrciD^. tinge; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing silky olive-brown; a fine pale subbasal waved line from costa to suhmedian fold ; antemedial line pale, oblique, angled outwards below costa, then sinuous ; orbicular and rcniform large, with fine white annuli, the former oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure and confluent wdtli the former; postmedial-line very indistinctly defined by grey on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 6 and from vein 4 to inner margin, with an indistinct series of dark points on the veins beyond it and some pale points on costa ; subterminal line white defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly exeurved at vein 7 and above inner margin ; a terminal series of black points defined by a fine crenulate pale line. Hind wing jxllowish suffused with brown, especially towards termen; the underside whitish, slightly tinged with red and irrorated with brown on costal area ; a dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hah. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 $ type. Exj). 32 millim. i^. Fore wing of male on underside with fringe of long hair from costa to beyond middle, the cell and area beyond it clothed with long downturned hair; hind wing with some rough scales on basal costal area and some downturned hair in cell. a?. Fore wing with the antemedial line straight from costa to inner mai-gin cremiJato. b^. Fore wing with the antemedial line sinuous jamaicensis. 1597. Eriopyga crenulata. Orthodcs ivfirma, Guen. Noct. i. p. 375 (ISr^^), part. Byschorista cremdata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (6) vi. p. 'J7 (1890); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 198. Orfhodes cynica, Druce, Biol. , BTet. i. p. 288 (;). Orthodes lodehar, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 289 (part.). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; palpi black, whitish in front; sides of frons black; tegulas with triangular.
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