. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. :. 1128. Erana graminosa. Erana graminosa, Wlk. xi. 605 (1857). Emna vigens, Wlk. xxxiii. 743 (1865). d. Head and thorax golden green; tegulae with rather darker medial line ; tibise and tarsi with dark bands; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous, the crests reddish, Foi'e wing golden sap-green sparsely irrorated with black; subbasal line represented by double black strioe from costa and cell, the antemedial line by double black strise from costa and from submedian fold to inner margin ; claviform and orbic
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. :. 1128. Erana graminosa. Erana graminosa, Wlk. xi. 605 (1857). Emna vigens, Wlk. xxxiii. 743 (1865). d. Head and thorax golden green; tegulae with rather darker medial line ; tibise and tarsi with dark bands; abdomen ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous, the crests reddish, Foi'e wing golden sap-green sparsely irrorated with black; subbasal line represented by double black strioe from costa and cell, the antemedial line by double black strise from costa and from submedian fold to inner margin ; claviform and orbicular absent: traces of a waved medial line ; reniform pale greenish, slightly defined by black and with brown spot on its lower part; postmedial line double, bent out- wards below costa, exourved to vein 4, then strongly angled. Pig. 3.—Erana graminosa, J'. \. inwards in submedian fold and excurved again, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line diffused, pale, oblique from costa to vein 7, excurved at middle and angled inwards in sub- median fold ; a terminal series of pale and dark strite. Hind wino- red suffused with fuscous brown, leaving the termen green from costa to vein 2 ; a terminal series of brown striae; the underside with the basal half pale, an indistinct curved postmedial line. 5 . Hind wing witli less green on termen. Hah. New Zealand {J. J. Wall-er), 1 <S , Otago {Hidton), 1 J , Dunedin (Purdie), 1 J, Wellington {Churton, Oxleg), 2 J', type and type vkiens. Exp. 34 millim. Larva. Hudson, New Zealand Moths and Butterflies, p. 28, pi. 3. f. 8. Bright green, darker in front; dorsal, subdorsal', and lateral white lines ; eight series of shining black warts, each Avith several stout black bristles ; head yellowish brown, with some black dots. After the last moult it is pale green marbled with dark green, often with white lateral line and indistinct series of oblique green stripes ; often pinkish brown, with two or three rows of pale spots. Food-
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