. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 116 NOCTUID-45. tarsi fuscous brown ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft pale brown. Fore wing sap-green slightly tinged with brown, the subbasal, medial, and postmedial areas mostly suffused with deep red-brown ; the veins streaked with brown with some silvery blue scales near base and towards extremity of median nervure; the diffused subbasal brown band not reaching inner margin ; antemedial line silvery blue, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved; claviform absent; orbicular and r
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 116 NOCTUID-45. tarsi fuscous brown ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft pale brown. Fore wing sap-green slightly tinged with brown, the subbasal, medial, and postmedial areas mostly suffused with deep red-brown ; the veins streaked with brown with some silvery blue scales near base and towards extremity of median nervure; the diffused subbasal brown band not reaching inner margin ; antemedial line silvery blue, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved; claviform absent; orbicular and reniforra large, green, rather quadrate, the former with brown centre irrorated with silvery blue scales and connected with a hemispherical green spot below the cell, the latter somewhat angled inwards on median nervure, the centre tinged with brown and its lower part suffused with brown ; postmedial line silvery blue except towards costa where it is pale, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate ; exciirved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the brown and green areas, dentate, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, 2, and at inner margin ; cilia olive-green and blackish intersected with white. Hind wing fuscous brown, a diffused greenish white postmedial line from vein 2 to inner margin and indistinct diffused subterminal band ; cilia chequered brown and white ; the underside greenish white thickly irrorated with fuscous brown, a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct diffused postmedial and subterminal bands. Hob. SiKHiM, Tonglo, 10,000' (Elives), 1 c? type. Ewj). 44 millim. 2862. Trachea snbviridis. Plataplecia snbviridis, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. ii, p. 32, pi. 31. f. 3 (1878). Head and thorax reddish ochreous slightly mixed with brown, the dorsum of thorax greyish : edges of patagia with some black scales ; fore tibise and the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen. Fig. 21.— Trachea subviri
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