. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 306- KOCTXJIDiE, greyish suffuBed with fuscous, a dorsal scries of triangular greyish patches defined at sides by hlack, the crests Hack at tips; pectus and ventral surface ot abdomen whitish, the legs with blackish mixed, Tore wing olive-greyish, ])ale red-brown irrorated with black, or blackish ; a slight black streak below base of cell; sub- T)asal line rejiresented by a curved black striga from costa ; antc- raedial line double, slightly angled outwards below costa, then somewhat oblique and waved ; medial line slightly
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 306- KOCTXJIDiE, greyish suffuBed with fuscous, a dorsal scries of triangular greyish patches defined at sides by hlack, the crests Hack at tips; pectus and ventral surface ot abdomen whitish, the legs with blackish mixed, Tore wing olive-greyish, ])ale red-brown irrorated with black, or blackish ; a slight black streak below base of cell; sub- T)asal line rejiresented by a curved black striga from costa ; antc- raedial line double, slightly angled outwards below costa, then somewhat oblique and waved ; medial line slightly angled outwards below costa, then indistinct, oblique, sinuous; reniform large, irregularly rounded, defined by black and with tuft of blackish hair in centre ; postmedial line double and oblique from costa to discal fold, then single, somewhat inwardly oblique, strongly incurved in submedian interspace and bent out:\vards at vein 1 ; subterrainal line slight, whitish defined on inner side by blackish, minutely. Fig. IQQ.âPlothcia dccrescevs, S â \- waved, angled inwards at discal fold, the interspaces beyond it streaked with black from apex to discal fold and towards tornus; a terminal series of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips and with blackish patch at tornus ; the underside greyish suffused with fuscous brown. Ab. 1. signata. Eore wing with blackish suffusion on basal, apical, and tornai areas. Ab. 2. guttulosa. i'ore wing with series of small black spots on the antemedial and postmedial lines and before the subterminal line. Ab. 3. spurcata. Pore wing with black medial patch from costa to median nervure. Ab. 4. Fore wing suffused with leaden grey, except basal, apical, and tornai areas. Ab. 5. lativiita. Similar but fore wing with the suffusion fuscous black. Ab. 6. imprimens. Fore wing with the inner area suffused with black with whitish patches at middle and tornus and white streak on medial part of inner margin. Ab. 7. F
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