. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 592 :. 8444. Mouralia tinctoides. Ahrosfola tinctoides, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 323 (1852\ Mouralia annuli/era, Wlk. xv. 1803 (1858); Dnice, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 462, pi. 91. f. 10. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown, the patai^na and sides of naetathorax grey mixed witli dark brown ; ])ectus and legs brownish grey, the hind'til)ia> with diffused blackish band, the tarsi banded blackish and whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing fuscous m
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 592 :. 8444. Mouralia tinctoides. Ahrosfola tinctoides, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 323 (1852\ Mouralia annuli/era, Wlk. xv. 1803 (1858); Dnice, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 462, pi. 91. f. 10. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown, the patai^na and sides of naetathorax grey mixed witli dark brown ; ])ectus and legs brownish grey, the hind'til)ia> with diffused blackish band, the tarsi banded blackish and whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing fuscous mixed with grey-white ; a pale browni patch on basal costal area; antemedial line double, black, the inner Hne indistinct, filled in with purple-brown and v/ith some purple-brown beyond it, slightly bent inwards to costa and inner margin; orbicular, reniform, and a. Fig. 129.—Mouralia tinctoides, (^. spot below the cell just beyond the former large, rounded, defined bv black with slight tufts of raised scales on their edges, their centres grey slightly defined by fuscous ; postmedial line black, strongly bent outwards below costa and oblique to belyw vein 7, then incurved, excurved double and filled in with whitish below submedian fold, some purple-brown before and beyond it except towards costa and inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by fuscovis and with purplish fuscous suffusion before it except below vein 3, slightly waved, vdth. black streaks before and beyond it above veins 7, 6 ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia greyish with a waved fuscous line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown with a cupreous tinge, the interspaces of basal half whitish; cilia white, tinged with brown at base; the underside with the costal area 1)rown irrorated with grey to beyond middle, a slight discoidal lunule. Ilfib. Mexico, Jalapa (Tri/jillo), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll.; Haiti {Twredie), 1 6 type annulifera ; Brazil, Neue Fri
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