. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 532 NOCTUID^. the termen creniilate, excised to vein 4 where it is more or less angled, then oblique, a scale-tooth at tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocelliilars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate with small tuft of hair on iipperside at one


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 532 NOCTUID^. the termen creniilate, excised to vein 4 where it is more or less angled, then oblique, a scale-tooth at tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocelliilars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate with small tuft of hair on iipperside at one third of shaft, then contorted and with three spinous bristles; the tibice and 1st joint of tarsi fringed with long hair. 3397. Eriopus jamaicensis. Eriopus jamaicensis, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 52, f. 24 (1886). Head and thorax olive-green mixed with some white scales ; palpi rufous, tegulse with slight white medial line ; tibiae red-brown ringed with white ; abdomen pale olive-green with whitish seg- mental lines, the crests blackish. Fore wing olive-green suffused and irrorated in parts with black, the costal area and inner part of medial area j^ellowish, the veins with yellowish streaks; snbbasal line represented by white striae defined on each side by black from costa and cell, with an oblique white striga beyond it across the cell; antemedial line white defined on inner side by black and on outer slightly by brown, angled outwards below costa, oblique to. Fig. 113.—Eriopusja/iiaicenms, cT. v. vein 1, then bent inwards to inner margin, an oblique white striga defined on each side by black before it from submedian fold to vein 1; claviform represented by a slight oblique blackish striga ; orbicular with olive centre and white annulus defined on outer side by black, oblique elliptical; reniform white defined by black except above and with olive lunule in centre, its lower extremity much produced; medial line blackish, oblique from costa to median nervure, then den


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