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. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PETRINIA. 323 Genus PETRINIA. Type. Fetrinia, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 347 (1869) ligoiusa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibia? nearly smoothly scaled ; ab- domen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen strongly curved and not
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PETRINIA. 323 Genus PETRINIA. Type. Fetrinia, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 347 (1869) ligoiusa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibia? nearly smoothly scaled ; ab- domen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen strongly curved and not crcnulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8,9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 neai'ly fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 6628. Petvinia lignosa. Fetrinia lignosa, Wlk, Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 318 (1869). c? - Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous largely mixed with black-brown, the tegulse with black line near tips, the patagia with oblique black bars near tips, the tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated with black on basal half, the costa and apical area black-brown mixed with some grey; an oblique dark shade from subcostal nervure before middle to inner margin near base, defined above by a curved grey streak with fine black streak above it, its outer edge angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; a slight black streak below costa from this antemedial shade to beyond middle where it is curved round and becomes the faint minutely dentate postmedial line, slightly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and double. Fig. 117.—Fetrinia lignosa, c?. f. filled in with whitish on inner area; a blackish line from costa beyond middle slightly defined by whitish on outer side and on inner side also below costa and at lower extremity, excurved below apex to ne
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