. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 148 jrcciriD^. Sect. T. {IpimorjJiaj. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex, tJieu excurvfcd. 4491. Ipimorpha retusa. Noctua retuaa, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 178. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 214; Dnp. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 145, pi. 82. f. 3 ; Frr. Beitr. iii. pi. 143 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. Noctua vet'ula, Hiibn. Beitr. pi. 2, H (1791). Noctua gracilis. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 268 (1809); Steph. 111. Bi-it. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 57. Cosmia ctirvata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 13
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 148 jrcciriD^. Sect. T. {IpimorjJiaj. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex, tJieu excurvfcd. 4491. Ipimorpha retusa. Noctua retuaa, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 178. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 214; Dnp. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 145, pi. 82. f. 3 ; Frr. Beitr. iii. pi. 143 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. Noctua vet'ula, Hiibn. Beitr. pi. 2, H (1791). Noctua gracilis. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 268 (1809); Steph. 111. Bi-it. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 57. Cosmia ctirvata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 131. Head and thorax reddish brown slightly mixed with grey; pectus with some whitish; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface greyer. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration, the costal area irrorated with whitish ; /^ ^. Fig. 43.—Ipimorpha retusa, ^. \. subbasal line whitish, oblique, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line whitish defined by a brown shade on outer side, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly excurved at submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform very large, dark brown with whitish annuli, the former ellij^tical and slightly constricted at middle, the latter strongly constricted at middle ; a rather diffused oblique sinuous brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side and strongly on outer, arising from costa towards apex, oblique, slightly sinuous; subterminal line slight, pale, defined by dark brown on outer side, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 5, excurved at middle and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia with a slight brown line at middle. Hind wing glossy grey-brown ; cilia brownish white with a slight brown line near base ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, a small brown discoidal spot, obliquely curved postmedial line and rather diffused subterminal line from costa to ter
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