. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PKON' AGLOSSESTRl. 225 at extremity and reactiing postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, blue-white defined by black, the former round ; a medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved and â waved; postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, white, defined on inner side by a brown patch at costa and dentate black marks between veins 5 and 2, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ;
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PKON' AGLOSSESTRl. 225 at extremity and reactiing postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, blue-white defined by black, the former round ; a medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved and â waved; postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, white, defined on inner side by a brown patch at costa and dentate black marks between veins 5 and 2, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a waved black terminal line with short. Fig. 37.âVronotestra silenides, (^. \. black streaks before it at middle and longer streak above vein 3; cilia with a waved black line through them. Hind wing grey, uniformly suffused with fuscous; the cilia pale, with a dark line through them; the underside white irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. Paler ; fore wing less suffused with red-brown. Hah. Spain, Andalusia; Algiers, 1 S; Tuxis, 1 $; Szria, Jerusalem, in Coll, Plingeler. Erp. 34 millim. Genus AGLOSSESTRA, nov. Type, A. deserficola. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect and fi-inged with hair; frons with truncate conical prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate, with moderate branches; head and thorax clothed with scales and hair, the crests slight; fore tarsi with the joints short, with lateral series of curved claws longer at extremity of joints; "abdomen with dorsal crest at base. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below angle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 1444. Aglossestra deserticola, n. sp, S. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white; tarsi wi
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