. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 100 NOCTUID^. the cell to termen. Hind wing- pure white, slightly tinged with pale brown at apex in female. Uab. W. Australia, Sherlock 11. {Clements)^ 1 c?, 1 2- Exp., 6 28, ? 30 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon^ 161. Melicleptria ionola. (Plate LVII. fig. 18.) Adisiira ionola, Swinh. N. H. (7) viii. p. 128 (1901). Head and thorax ochreoiis, strongly tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tiuged with riifous. Fore wing pale ochreous suffused with dull purplish rose, leaving a fascia of the ground-colou
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 100 NOCTUID^. the cell to termen. Hind wing- pure white, slightly tinged with pale brown at apex in female. Uab. W. Australia, Sherlock 11. {Clements)^ 1 c?, 1 2- Exp., 6 28, ? 30 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon^ 161. Melicleptria ionola. (Plate LVII. fig. 18.) Adisiira ionola, Swinh. N. H. (7) viii. p. 128 (1901). Head and thorax ochreoiis, strongly tinged with rufous; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tiuged with riifous. Fore wing pale ochreous suffused with dull purplish rose, leaving a fascia of the ground-colour in and beyond cell from before middle to termen and some ochreous on inner margin; a terminal series of dark points iisually present; cilia ochreous. Hind wing pale ochreous, suffused with fuscous wholly or on terminal area only. Underside of fore wing ochreous suffused with fuscous, except in cell and on costal and apical areas, the orbicular represented by a small fuscous spot, the reniform by a larger spot. JI ah. W. Australia, Sherlock R. (Clemotts), 5 d, 5 5 • Kvp. 26-30 millim. Type f in Mus. Oxon. 162. Melicleptria pallida. Canthylidia i^aUida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 406, pi. is. f. 9. Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white, thickly irrorated with pale grey-brown and with more or less distinct. Fig. 32.—Melicleptria'pallida^ ^ traces of a white fascia from middle of cell to termen. Hind wing white ; the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, less prominently towards tornus. Hah. N. Australia, Baudin I. (J". J. WaRer), 1 2 ; ^^^- Aus- tralia, Sherlock E. (Clements), 7^,5$; Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 J , 1 ? , Gayndah, 2 d , type. Ex/). 26-30 millim. 163. Melicleptria canusina. (Plate LVII. fig. 19.) Canthylidia canusina, Swinh. N. H. (7) viii. p. 127 (1901). Head and thorax white mixed with grey-brown and with a slight yellowish tinge; abdomen white, dorsally tinged wit
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