. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 588 NOCTuiMi;. on 3rd segment large. Fore vring with the apex rounded, tlae termeu evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3457. Telesilla amethystina. Noctua amethystina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 69, 597-8 (1802); Dup. Le
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 588 NOCTuiMi;. on 3rd segment large. Fore vring with the apex rounded, tlae termeu evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3457. Telesilla amethystina. Noctua amethystina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 69, 597-8 (1802); Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 328, pi. 93. fi'. 3, 4; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 639; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 235. Head and thorax purplish pink mixed with red-brown ; basal joint of antennae with white ring at tip; tegulae tipped with whitish; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown tinged with grey, the crests dark at tips. Fore wing purplish pink suffused with red-brown, the outer part oi: medial area pinker; subbasal line black defined by whitish on outer side, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line brown defined by pink on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; claviform defined by a white striga at extremity with an oblong black-brown patch beyond it extending to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with pink centres slightly defined by red-brown, the former with white bars at sides, rather elliptical, the latter with white bar on inner side and slightly angled inwards on median nervure, black-brown patches in cell before and between them ; postmedial line double tilled in with pink, slightly. Fig. 147.— Telesilla amethystina, cJ angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards, minutely dentate below vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa with black marks between them ; subterminal line indis- tinct, pink defined by brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a
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