. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EUEEETAGROTIS. 645 at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a terminal series of white points at extremities of veins, with small blackish spots between them. Hind wing- whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish: the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous towards apex, a small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and terminal baud. Ab. 1. liehridicola. Fore wing paler and almost without rufous tinge.—Hebrides. Ab. 2. scoparice. Much d
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EUEEETAGROTIS. 645 at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a terminal series of white points at extremities of veins, with small blackish spots between them. Hind wing- whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish: the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous towards apex, a small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and terminal baud. Ab. 1. liehridicola. Fore wing paler and almost without rufous tinge.—Hebrides. Ab. 2. scoparice. Much darker, almost black.—Prance. Hah. Britain, Leech Coll.; France, Frey & Sand Colls.; Belgium: N. Spain. Exp. 32-38 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 96 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 359, pi. 133. f. 2. Green or pinkish brown with darker irroration : dorsal line Avhirish with dark edges; subdorsal line whitish, black-edged above ; spiracular line broader, ochreous white, sometimes dark-edged above ; head pale j-ellow-brown with darker markings. Food-plants: CaJluna, Erica. 9-6. Sect. III. Antennaj of male ciliated ; fore wing broad. A. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black. a. Size large ; thorax with the crests prominently pale sigmoides. b. Size smaller ; thoi"ax with the crests more concolorous ... perattenta. B. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black. a. Fore wing without difi'used brown in and below cell attenta. b. Pore wing with diffused brown in and below cell fuscostigma. 1110. Eueretagrotis sigmoides. Noctua sigmoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 325 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 60. Head and tegulse and patagia deep red-brown, largely mixed with black, the tegulae deep black at extremities, and the tegulae and patagia with pale edges above; vertex of thorax brownish grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen pale rufous irrorated with black. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and fuscous brown ; a diffused. Fig. 118.—Eueretagrotis sigmoides, S
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