. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 496 N0CTUIDJ5. //â '. Abflomen of male not clothed with woolly hair and without protrusible tufts from the stigmata. a^. Underside of wings of aiale clothed with silvery scales. a''. Hind wing of male on underside witli tlie exf,remity of veins 8 to 3 clothed with luug downturned hair. 1856. CirpMs laniata. Leucania laniata, Ilmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 444, pi. A. f. 22 (1897). S. Head and thorax pinkish white mixed with some browu ; tegulse with three brown lines ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 496 N0CTUIDJ5. //â '. Abflomen of male not clothed with woolly hair and without protrusible tufts from the stigmata. a^. Underside of wings of aiale clothed with silvery scales. a''. Hind wing of male on underside witli tlie exf,remity of veins 8 to 3 clothed with luug downturned hair. 1856. CirpMs laniata. Leucania laniata, Ilmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 444, pi. A. f. 22 (1897). S. Head and thorax pinkish white mixed with some browu ; tegulse with three brown lines ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; abdomen pinkish white, dorsally tinged with fuscous, the ventral tufts black. Fore wing white, slightly tinged with pink. Fig. 156.â Cirphis laniata, ^. \. and irrorated with black ; a slight black streak below base of coll; the veins defined by fine brown streaks ; the interspaces of terminal half streaked with brown; the extremity of median nervure with a white streak; a black point in lower angle of cell; an indistinct postmedial series of black points, bent outwards below eosta, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; an oblique brown shade from termen just below apex, followed by a series of black points on veins 5-1 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, tinged with brown except towards base, costa, and inner margin; cilia white, brownish at base from apex to vein 2. Underside of both wings brilliant silver except costal area, which is pinkish irrorated with black ; fore wing with postmedial black spot on costa and terminal series of points; hind wing with discoidal point, the hair on apical area fuscous at base. Ilah. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 J type. Esp. 36 millim. li'. Hind wing of male on underside without downcurved liair on \eins 8 to 2. a®. Fore wing with dark streaks in inter- spaces of terminal area. a'. Fore wing with pale streak on ex- tremity of median nervure, hooked at lower angle of cell. a^. Fore wing with tiie costal area paler than


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