. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 298 NocxuiDiE. â with grey. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with black ; l^he veins "streaked with black; a slight black streak in snbmcdian fold to the antemedial line, which is oblique and strong from costa to median nervnre, then incurved ; traces of a discoidal lunulc with dark mark on costa above it; postmedial line angled outwards on vein 6 and inwards in submedian fold, then oblique, sinuous; an oblique shade from apex to vein 2; a series of slight black streaks in interspaces of terminal area
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 298 NocxuiDiE. â with grey. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated with black ; l^he veins "streaked with black; a slight black streak in snbmcdian fold to the antemedial line, which is oblique and strong from costa to median nervnre, then incurved ; traces of a discoidal lunulc with dark mark on costa above it; postmedial line angled outwards on vein 6 and inwards in submedian fold, then oblique, sinuous; an oblique shade from apex to vein 2; a series of slight black streaks in interspaces of terminal area. Hind wing pale suffused and irrorated with brown ; cilia white with brown line at base ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins. Hah. , Colorado, GleuAvood Springs {Barnes, Oslar), 7 6, 2 $ , California. Exi:>. 38 millim. Genus NEUMICHTIS, nov. Type, 3\ irijuncia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi n])tinTicd, the 2nd joint fringed with long liair in front, the oixl short, somewhat porrect : frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; nntenn.'e of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without distinct crests, the tegula; produced to a dorsal ridge; pectus clothed witli long hair; tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side; abdomen with dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing trianguhir, the termen rather erect; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (Vfrom upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocelhdars; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 2460. ITeumiclitis trijimcta. Hadcna frijunda, Wlk. si. 61)7 (1857). Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulse more or less tinged with pale rufous at base and with dark medial line; abdomen with tlio dors
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