. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. HYSSIA. 285 b^. Fore wing not tinged with violaceous. a^. Fore wing witli the orbicular not connected wirh the reniform. a^ Fore with the renifcrm rufous fasciata. b^. Fore wing with the reniform grey with two white points on its lower extremity niveiguttata. b^. Fore wing with the orbicular connected with the reniform orhicidata. b. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-white rnasculina. 1537. Hyssia cavernosa. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 547, pi. 6. f. 3; Staud. '. 46, 47 (1845). Mamestra cavernosa, Ev, Cat. Lep. pa
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. HYSSIA. 285 b^. Fore wing not tinged with violaceous. a^. Fore wing witli the orbicular not connected wirh the reniform. a^ Fore with the renifcrm rufous fasciata. b^. Fore wing with the reniform grey with two white points on its lower extremity niveiguttata. b^. Fore wing with the orbicular connected with the reniform orhicidata. b. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-white rnasculina. 1537. Hyssia cavernosa. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 547, pi. 6. f. 3; Staud. '. 46, 47 (1845). Mamestra cavernosa, Ev, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. Mamestra ornata, Eur. Schmett., Noct, Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with grey-white; tegulae with dark medial line and whitish tips; tarsi with white rings ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing violaceous grey, almost entirely suffused with purple-brown except just before antemedial line and on medial and postmedial areas ; an ochreous-white stripe on iuner area narrowing to points near base and termen, and with. Fig. 61.—Hyssia cavernosa, (^. a short black streak above its basal part; subbasal line grey, nearly straight, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, filled in with grey, nearly straight, from costa to vein 1 ; claviform large, black-brown defined by black ; orbicular and reniform black- brown defined by black, the former small, round, the latter large, with black lunule at centre and its lower part dilated ; an indis- tinct medial shade, oblique from costa to vein 2; postmedial line slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond on costa; subterminal line white, angled outwards at vein 7 and very slightly excurved at middle, a black bar on its inner side below costa and dentate marks at middle ; terminal area brown, with indistinct series of luimles on termen. Hind wing ochreous brown, the cilia pale at tips ; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal area suffused
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