. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 218 NOCTtjiD-T:. mostly suffused with grey and slightly irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line represented by slight black points' on the veins; anteraedial line indistinci., double, minutely waved, cui'ved, with some black points on it; traces of a double medial line ; reniform faintly defined by black points ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, the outer line soracwbat dentate aud with some black points on it; subterminal line i-epresented by a series of black points, ang


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 218 NOCTtjiD-T:. mostly suffused with grey and slightly irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line represented by slight black points' on the veins; anteraedial line indistinci., double, minutely waved, cui'ved, with some black points on it; traces of a double medial line ; reniform faintly defined by black points ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, the outer line soracwbat dentate aud with some black points on it; subterminal line i-epresented by a series of black points, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, followed by an indistinct slightly waved line; a terminal series of small black lunulas. Hind wing fuscous, the interspaces of basal half pale and thinly scaled. Hah. WooDLARK IsD. {Meek), 1 5 type. Exp. .30 millim. 6477. Gyrtona proximalis. Gyrtona proximalis, Wlk. xxvii. 90 (1863). Gr;rlona ferrimissalis, Wlk. xxvii. 90 (18t)3). Gyrtona costeUa, Wlk. xxvii. 95 (1863). Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen brown with slight greyish segmental lines ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing dark brown mixed with grey and with a slight purplish silvery gloss; subbasal line slight, dark, curved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinctly double, filled in with whitish and with whitish suffusion before it except towards costa, slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved, the inner line slightly angled inwards at vein 1, points of raised black scales on its outer edge in and below cell;. Fig. 70.— Gyrtona, 2}roximalis, i^. \. medial line dark, slightly sinuous ; reniform slightly defined by black and with some raised black scales on its inner edge ; post- medial line indistinct, treble, filled in with whitish towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it


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