. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 116 Is^OCTUID^. Sect. I. Antennae of male with tlie shaft thickened before middle; femora and tibiae fringed with long hair ; hind wing on underside with the basal and inner areas clothed with woolly hair. A. Fore wing of male with the postmedial line strongly incurved arcuata. B. Fere wing of male with the postmedial line slightlj incurved. a. Fore wing witli the antemedial line oblique helvina. b. Fore wing with the antemedial line almost erect montana. 7892. Nymbis arcuata. Phurys arcuata, Wlk. xxxiii. 996 (1865), S • Eemi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 116 Is^OCTUID^. Sect. I. Antennae of male with tlie shaft thickened before middle; femora and tibiae fringed with long hair ; hind wing on underside with the basal and inner areas clothed with woolly hair. A. Fore wing of male with the postmedial line strongly incurved arcuata. B. Fere wing of male with the postmedial line slightlj incurved. a. Fore wing witli the antemedial line oblique helvina. b. Fore wing with the antemedial line almost erect montana. 7892. Nymbis arcuata. Phurys arcuata, Wlk. xxxiii. 996 (1865), S • Eemigia multilinea, Wlk. xxxiii. 1020 (1865), $ . (S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white slightly tinged -wdth reddish brown, the hairs on legs rather redder brown. Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown; a minute round black spot above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is red-brown with a black bar from sub- median fold to inner margin, expanding into a spot at vein 1,. Fig. 3i*.—Nymbis arcuata, (^. arising at subcostal nervure and inwardly oblique ; a black discoidal point; an indistinct oblique reddish brown line from just before lower angle of cell to inner margin and two indistinct obliquely incurved reddish brown lines beyond the cell; postmedial line whitish defined on outer side by black-brown shading to reddish brown, arising from below costa towards apex, obliquely and strongly incxarved ; a subtenninal series of minute black points on the veins ; the termen slightly suffused with brown at middle ; a terminal series of minute black points. Hind wing grey-white tinged with reddish brown; tmces of an oblique brown postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish; an indistinct dark subterminal shade. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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