. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LXTHOIICEA. 209 b^. Antennte of male with longer branches, metathoracic crest rufovis brunncicrista. Fore wine; with the antemedial line rep-esented by a striga from cos^a and long teeth in snbmedian fold and above inner margin indistincta. 3821. Lithomcea rectilinea. Nodua rectilinea, Esp. Schniett. iv. p. 379, pi. 127. f. 1 (1788); Hubn, Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 248; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 231, pi. 114. f. 6; Frr. Beitr. pi. 4. f. 1; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 179; Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 121; Stand. Cat. Lep. p
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LXTHOIICEA. 209 b^. Antennte of male with longer branches, metathoracic crest rufovis brunncicrista. Fore wine; with the antemedial line rep-esented by a striga from cos^a and long teeth in snbmedian fold and above inner margin indistincta. 3821. Lithomcea rectilinea. Nodua rectilinea, Esp. Schniett. iv. p. 379, pi. 127. f. 1 (1788); Hubn, Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 248; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 231, pi. 114. f. 6; Frr. Beitr. pi. 4. f. 1; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 179; Dyar, Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 121; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. Head and thorax while tinged with rufous; frons with black bar ; tegulae with strong black medial line ; patagia chocolate-red with black line near upper edge which is pure white ; metathorax' chocolate-red; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen red- brown, pale at base, the medial crests blackish. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown^ the medial area red-brown with some white irroration, especially beyond the cell and on inner area, the terminal area red-brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by slight brown striae from costa and cell; the inner basal area suffused with red-brown with a diffused black fascia in base of submedian fold and a streak above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is black defined by white on inner side, oblique and slightly sinuous from costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin, a strong black fascia in submedian fold from it to post- medial line; claviform very narrow, defined by black and obscured. Fig. il.—Li/komoea rectilinea, c?. by the black fascia ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black, the former elongate elliptical with its outer edge indented, the latter irrorated with white ; a slight dark medial shade from costa ; postmedial line blackish by white on outer side and with white patch beyond it in submedian interspa
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