. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 23-i ':. 4()()9. Dicycla oo. Bomhi/x no, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 507 (17.'i8;; Esp Schmett. iii. pi. 71. ff. 2-5 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 174. pi. 84. ff. 2, 3 ; Geyer, Eur. tfclimett., jS'oct. f. 867; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 454 ; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Iluust. iii. p. 59; Staud. Cat. Lep. piil. p. 203. yoctua ferruginago, Hiibn. Eur. Suhmett., Noct. f. 195 (18U2). Noctiia renago, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 238 (1809). Dicycla sul'phurca, Slnud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203 (1901). Dicycla grheugo, Schultz, Soe. Ent. xxi. p. 3 (190


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 23-i ':. 4()()9. Dicycla oo. Bomhi/x no, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 507 (17.'i8;; Esp Schmett. iii. pi. 71. ff. 2-5 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 174. pi. 84. ff. 2, 3 ; Geyer, Eur. tfclimett., jS'oct. f. 867; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 454 ; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Iluust. iii. p. 59; Staud. Cat. Lep. piil. p. 203. yoctua ferruginago, Hiibn. Eur. Suhmett., Noct. f. 195 (18U2). Noctiia renago, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 238 (1809). Dicycla sul'phurca, Slnud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203 (1901). Dicycla grheugo, Schultz, Soe. Ent. xxi. p. 3 (1907). Head and Ihorax very i)ale yellow, the of head witli a few blackish scales and the thorax tin<;ed with red-brown except in front ; palpi with the I^nd joint red-brown at sidis ; antennse red- brown except at l)ase; pectns and legs with red-brown mixed; abdomen whitish slightly tinged with rufous except at base. Fore wing very pale yellow irrorated with rufous, the veins streaked. Fig. 94.—Dicycla oo, J. with rufous, the basul area suffused with rufous except at base of costa, and the postmedial area tinged with rufous; subbasal line red-brown defined by yellow on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian fold; anteniedial line red-brown detined by yellow on inner side, waved, excurved below costa, then oblique ; claviform defined by red-brown, small, elliptical ; orbicular and reniform defined by red-brown, the former small, round, the latter rather rounded with slight rufoxis lunule in centre ; medial line rather diffused, red-brown, obliquely excurved to median nervure, then oblique ; postmeciial line red-brown defined by yellow on outer side, oblique to vein G, then very minutely waved, excurved to vein 4 then incurved; subterminal line formed of small brown lunules, slightly excurved below vein 7, then almost straight, a brown mark beyond it above and below vein 5 ; a red-brown terminal line ; cilia pale yellow intersected with red-brown. Hind wing vello


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