. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 18 NOCTUIDJ;;. 1140. Craterestra lucina. Stibera lucina, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 296, pi, 27. (1889). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen red-brown, dorsally suffused with black. Foi'e wing pale grey-browu suffused in parts with purplish brown, the area between the antemedial and medial lines strongly suffused ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then strongly excurved; claviform defined
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 18 NOCTUIDJ;;. 1140. Craterestra lucina. Stibera lucina, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 296, pi, 27. (1889). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen red-brown, dorsally suffused with black. Foi'e wing pale grey-browu suffused in parts with purplish brown, the area between the antemedial and medial lines strongly suffused ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then strongly excurved; claviform defined by black, very short and broad; orbicular and reniform with pale brownish centres and grey annuli, the former defined by black, rather pointed above and dilated below, the latter very indistinct; a waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below. Fig. 8.— Cratcredra lucina, J. }• costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, some pale points on costa beyond it; subtermiual line pale, defined on inner side by a series of slight dark marks, and with some fuscous suffusion beyond it; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside ochreous whitish irrorated with dark brown, the basal area suffused with fuscous except towards costa, a black discoidal lunule, a diffused fuscous subterminal band. Hah. Mexico, Tabasco, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 1 $, Teapa (FT. If. Smith), 1 (3*, type, Godman-Salvin Coll. '23., d 36, 2 40 millim. 1141. Craterestra niveopicta. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 26.) Perigea niveopicta, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 124, J. Periffea florinda, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 125, d". Head and thorax purplish brown mixed with some black, some of the scales tipped with grey; tarsi black with whitish rings ; abdomen brown, whitish at base. Fore wing brown irrorated with black and grey, and with a purplish gloss ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to vein 1, but interrupted in cell: a
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