. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 242 >'OCTriI).E. «'. Fore wing long and narrow, the wliole medial area suffused with ochreous in male, the female with some ochreous ou middle of inner margin latifascia. b*. Fore wing shorter and broader, the medial area suffused with ochreous in male, in female without ochreous. «'. Fore wing largely suffused with fuscous, the violaceous white fascia from apex promi- nent in male ornithogalli. h^. Fore wing paler brown, the violaceous white fascia from apex slight prcefica. '. Fore wing without violaceous white fas
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 242 >'OCTriI).E. «'. Fore wing long and narrow, the wliole medial area suffused with ochreous in male, the female with some ochreous ou middle of inner margin latifascia. b*. Fore wing shorter and broader, the medial area suffused with ochreous in male, in female without ochreous. «'. Fore wing largely suffused with fuscous, the violaceous white fascia from apex promi- nent in male ornithogalli. h^. Fore wing paler brown, the violaceous white fascia from apex slight prcefica. '. Fore wing without violaceous white fascia from apex marima. 3859. Prodenia dolichos. Nodua dolichos, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 2, p. 95 (1794). PhalcBna commelinw, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 189, pi. 95 (1797); Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 268; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 169. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous; palpi with red- brown bar near extremitj^ of 2nd joint; frons with red-brown bar above ; vertex of head mostly red-brown ; tegulse with black-brown band at base and medial line and red-brown band near tips ; patagia edged with red-brown and with black line near upper edge ; tibiae and the 1st joint of mid tarsi streaked with red-brown ; abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous. Fore wing red-brown, the basal half of costal area whitish irrorated with red-brown, an ochreous. Fig. 62.—Prodenia dolichos, S • fascia on inner margin from before antemedial line, where it narrows to a point, to termen where it expands to submedian fold ; an oblique whitish and blackish striga from base of costa; subbasal line represented by an oblique whitish striga from costa defined on each side by blackish striae ; an oblique whitish streak from sub- costal nervure at antemedial line to vein 1, double below submedian fold ; antemedial line rather indistinct, double filled in with whitish, minutely waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform slightly defined by black, elongate and extending to the
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