. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 218 reiiiform whitish, di'fincd l)y Muck, and with some fuscous irrorntion in centre, the t'ornuT olilii|iie clliplical. the latter anj;h'd on int'diaii ni-ivurc; an indistinct ditlused waved niiMlial line; postmi-dial lino hont outwards bflow costa, then waved, bt-low vein 4 incurved to below inner edj^e ot' rcnilorm, some white points beyond it on eost;i and slijrht black streaks on the veins ; sult- terniinal line whitish, defined by brown on inner side and with some blaek betore and beyond it in siil)medi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 218 reiiiform whitish, di'fincd l)y Muck, and with some fuscous irrorntion in centre, the t'ornuT olilii|iie clliplical. the latter anj;h'd on int'diaii ni-ivurc; an indistinct ditlused waved niiMlial line; postmi-dial lino hont outwards bflow costa, then waved, bt-low vein 4 incurved to below inner edj^e ot' rcnilorm, some white points beyond it on eost;i and slijrht black streaks on the veins ; sult- terniinal line whitish, defined by brown on inner side and with some blaek betore and beyond it in siil)median interspace, an;;Kil ontwards at vein 7 and cxcnrved at middle, the veins beyond it streaked with ; a terminal series of small black luniiles ; cilia wliitish and fuscous witii a dark line through tiiem. Hind win}; whitish suliused and irrorated with brown ; a diffused sub- terminal band and dark terminal line; cilia white with a dark line through them ; the underside with dark discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line showing through to uppersidc. Ilab. , California, Sierra 2sovada, I'lacer Co., Mt. Shasta, 1 2 . Hi'p. '34 millim. 23(>4. Bombycia elda. Homohadena elda, French, Ciin. Eut. xix. p. 5(); Smilli, Cut. N<K.'t. N. Ain. p. lilo. S. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; frons witli blackish bar; teguhe witti dark lines at middle and near tips ; tarsi blackish ringed with wliite; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous and dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and suffused in parts with brown ; a sinuous blaek streak. Fig. 03.—Bombycia elda, (^. \. below base of cell, with a whitish patch above it; subliasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to suhmedian I'ohl; ante- medial line double tilled in with whitish, slightly sinuous and soraewliat obli(|ue ; claviform minute. «lelined by a few black scales ; orbicular and reiiiform wliitish irrorated with brown, the former detined bv black bars at sides
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