. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 214 NOCTUID.^. Genus FOTA. Type â Fata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 174 (1882) armata. Proboscis fuUv developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and fringed with long scales below, the 8rd joint moderate; Irons with large rounded corneous prominence with raised edges and long pointed central process hidden in long hair, a large corneous plate below it; eyes large, round â antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with sc-alea, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; tibiae smo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 214 NOCTUID.^. Genus FOTA. Type â Fata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 174 (1882) armata. Proboscis fuUv developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and fringed with long scales below, the 8rd joint moderate; Irons with large rounded corneous prominence with raised edges and long pointed central process hidden in long hair, a large corneous plate below it; eyes large, round â antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with sc-alea, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the fore tibia with small curved claw on inner side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narro\r, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not creuulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; ] 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 typically from cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. Sect. I. Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 stalked. 3826. Fota minorata. Foia 7ninorata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 181 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 183. Iscadia aperta, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 474 (part.), nee Wlk. Head and tegulse ochreous white, palpi, sides of frons and antennse mixed with brown; thorax dark grs}' mixed with fuscous and whitish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous especially on costal area ; an indistinct curved subbasal line with paler grey before it and beyond it at costa, an elongate pale grey mark defined. Fig. 43.âFota minorata, 5 ⢠\- by blackish beyond it in cell; antemedial line indistinctly double, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved to submediau fold, then incurved; orbicular and reniform pale grey defined by black, their centres tinged with brown, the former round, the
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