. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 456 NOCTUIDiE. brown irrorated with grey, the orbicular defined by wliitish, obliqua U-shaped, the stigma below the cell defined by white, oblique V-shaped with its lower extremity slightly bent outwards, the reniform narrow and oblique above and angled outwards on median nervure; postmedial line white defined by red-brown, slightly on outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 5 ; subterminal line white defined oil inner side by rufous suffusion, slightly incurved at diseal fold and incurved below vein 3,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 456 NOCTUIDiE. brown irrorated with grey, the orbicular defined by wliitish, obliqua U-shaped, the stigma below the cell defined by white, oblique V-shaped with its lower extremity slightly bent outwards, the reniform narrow and oblique above and angled outwards on median nervure; postmedial line white defined by red-brown, slightly on outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 5 ; subterminal line white defined oil inner side by rufous suffusion, slightly incurved at diseal fold and incurved below vein 3, the area beyond it rufous toAvards apex and at middle ; a red-brown tenninal line defined on inner side by a fine white line from apex to vein 3 ; cilia rufous at apex and middle. Hind wing whitish suffused "with purplish brown, an indistinct diffused incurved postmedial line and diffused subterminal line; cilia ochreous white; the underside ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown, the diffused lines more distinct. Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, tyj^e f d in CoU. Pilngeler. JExp. 40 millim. Sect. IV. Antennaa of male ciliated. A. Abdomen of male with more oi" less developed lateral tufts of long hair towards extremity. a. Hind tarsi of male witli a comb of long spines at right angles to the tarsus on inner side of basal half of 1st joint. a^. Hind tibiae of male fringed with very long hair above; the anal tufts large. a^. Hind tarsi of male with the basal joint fringed with long hair above. 8278. Phytometra chalcopasta. Plusia clialcopa&ia, Hmpsn. J, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. p. 1225 (1912). Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey; antennse. Fig. 118.—Phytometra chalcopasta, (^. i. ringed with white; tegulse tipped with white; patagia with an oblique white line near base ; the dorsal crest tipped with white;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appe
Size: 2079px × 1202px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmoths, bookyear1898
