. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 456 NOCTUID^. 4151. Balsa tristrigella. Gffry«.-« <ns<r2;^c//a, Wlk. XXXV. 1734 (18Gr)); Smith, Cat. Noct. K Am. Asisyra selleri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 169 (1873). Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; a black bar between antennae which are pale rufous ; tcgulse with blackish band near tips ; legs blackish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale red-browui, the veins with prominent dark stre
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 456 NOCTUID^. 4151. Balsa tristrigella. Gffry«.-« <ns<r2;^c//a, Wlk. XXXV. 1734 (18Gr)); Smith, Cat. Noct. K Am. Asisyra selleri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 169 (1873). Head and thorax grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; a black bar between antennae which are pale rufous ; tcgulse with blackish band near tips ; legs blackish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale red-browui, the veins with prominent dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight black striga from costa, the antemedial line by an oblique black striga from costa and point on median nervure ; stigmata absent; slight black streaks beyond the cell above and below vein 5 ; postmedial line very indistinct, brown faintly defined by whitish. Fig. 12^).—Balsa tri&irigdla, S • \ on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and strongly dentate, some slight black streaks beyond it on costa ; subterminal line absent; the interspaces of terminal area with slight black streaks; cilia whitish intersected with slight rufous streaks. Hind wing whitish tinged with pale red-brown ; cilia white; the underside white irrorated with red-brown, a slight dis- coidal spot with oblique dark mark above it from costa, and faint curved postmedial line. Hah. , Massachusetts, New York {Packard, Smith), 2 S, 2 2 ^ Schenectady (Lintner), 1 $ , Texas; Hab. ign., 1 d type. ii>p. 28 millim. 4152. Balsa lahecula. (riate CXXXIV. fig. 2.) Xolophana lahccula, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 217 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 194. $ . Head and thorax bluish white slightly mixed with brown palpi brownish at sides; frons with slight lateral brown bars tegulfe with brown band at tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with white abdomen white slightly irrorated with black and with blackish dorsal marks on terminal segments. Fore wing blui
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