. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 384 NOCTUIDiE. whitish above nnd on outer side, 8lip;htly angled inwards on median nervure ; ])ostmedial line with two black spots at costa, then single, indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate to vein 4, then strongly incurved to lower edge of reniform, some white points with black streaks betAvccn them on costa; subtcrminal line whitish strongly defined by black on inner side,. Fig. 126.—Brt/oti/pc mesomelana, (f. r- excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved, a fine waved black terminal
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 384 NOCTUIDiE. whitish above nnd on outer side, 8lip;htly angled inwards on median nervure ; ])ostmedial line with two black spots at costa, then single, indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate to vein 4, then strongly incurved to lower edge of reniform, some white points with black streaks betAvccn them on costa; subtcrminal line whitish strongly defined by black on inner side,. Fig. 126.—Brt/oti/pc mesomelana, (f. r- excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved, a fine waved black terminal line and line through the cilia. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with reddish brown ; cilia white with fine brown line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postniedial line. Hob. Pu>-JA]i, Simla (Filcher), 1 d type. Exp. 36 millim. Genus HYPOTYPE, nov. Type, H. scotomifta. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in front, the 3rd joint short; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; of male typically minutely ciliated; head and thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; pectus clothed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the ternien evenly curved ; veins 3 and ."> from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 0 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 just below middle of discocellulars; G, 7 shortly stalked or from angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. j\ntenn;f of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. *25<j4. Hypotype plnmbea. Tolia j^lumhca, Stand. Iris, vii. p. I27f) (1S94); id. Cat. Lap. pal. p. 180. S . Head and thorax pale grey largely mixed with black ; palpi and lower part of frons whitish, the former black above, the latter with black lateral bars; pectus white with s
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