. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 136 NOCTUID^, grey ; anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with olive, and suiFused with black on base of inner and medial areas ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line black, inciirved from costa to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform elon- gate, defined by black; cell filled in by black defining the orbicular and renit'orm, w'hieh are small, grey-brown, the former rouud, the latter narrowing below ; postmedial line bent outwards below
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 136 NOCTUID^, grey ; anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with olive, and suiFused with black on base of inner and medial areas ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line black, inciirved from costa to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform elon- gate, defined by black; cell filled in by black defining the orbicular and renit'orm, w'hieh are small, grey-brown, the former rouud, the latter narrowing below ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; subterminal line represented by a series of small dentate black marks ; a terminal puuctiform line ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing yellowish white, suffused and irrorated with brown ; an indistinct discoidal spot and fine dark terminal line : cilia yellowish, brown at base. Hah. Er. Columbia, Laggan; , Colorado (Bruce), 1 $ . Eivjy. 32 millim. 240. Orosagrotis rigida. Agrotiphila rk/ida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 13i(1891): id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 110. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with grey ; anal tuit tinged with ochreous. Fore wing olive-brown irrorated with black; the subbasal line defined by white on outer side, waved, from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line oblique, viaved, angled outwards above inner margin and defined by white on inner side ; claviform outlined with black, and with a white streak from it to postmedial line ; cell filled in with black defining the orbicular and reniform, which have brown centres and w-hite anuuli, the former. Fig. 48. — Orosagrotis rigida, J". \. small, round, the latter moderate; the postmedial \f\\Q minutely dentate, defined bj^ white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique, the area beyond it suflFused with grey ; the subterminal line indistinct, grey, with a series of dentate black marks before it and slightly angled at
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