. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HJSMASSIA. GALGULA. 439 Fore wing ochreoiis whitish tinged with blood-red, the medial area slightly darker; antemedial line blood-red defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then sinuous and somewhat oblique ; reniform a narrow silvery-white lunule defined by deep red and constricted at middle; postmedial line deep red with a white spot on its outer edge at costa, and defined on outer side by white from lower angle of cell to inner margin, oblique. Fig. 121.—Hcemassia reiialis, (^. \. from cost
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HJSMASSIA. GALGULA. 439 Fore wing ochreoiis whitish tinged with blood-red, the medial area slightly darker; antemedial line blood-red defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, then sinuous and somewhat oblique ; reniform a narrow silvery-white lunule defined by deep red and constricted at middle; postmedial line deep red with a white spot on its outer edge at costa, and defined on outer side by white from lower angle of cell to inner margin, oblique. Fig. 121.—Hcemassia reiialis, (^. \. from costa to vein 6 just beyond the reniform, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved and sinuous below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, reddish, nearly straight ; cilia deep red with a fine dark line at middle. Hind wing ochreous whitish tinged with blood-red ; a tine deep red terminal line. Hah. S. Franck, Zeller, Frey, Leech, and Sand Colls.; Asia MiNOK, Pontus, Bithynia, Amanus Mts., 1 $; Stkia, Mardin; W. Tdrkestan, Turcomania, Exp. 2fa' millim. Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 289; Hffm. Raup. p. 144, pi. 36. f. 17. Yellowish green spotted with red ; all the prolegs fully developed. Food-plants : flowers of Lactuca saliva and GJiOTulrilla juncea. 5. Genus GALGULA. Typp. Galgula, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 239 (1852) pariila. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect; frons smooth, with tult of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennie of male ciliated ; thorax cJothed chiefly with scales and without crests; build slender; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind
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