. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 208 fuscous; palpi with blacic patch on 2nd joint near extremity, the 3rd joint black in front; blackish bars on frons and between antennoe; tegulse with black line at base and dark medial band, the patagia with dark spot at base and streak near upper edge ; pectus brownish white ; legs white, mixed with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen fulvous 3'eriow, the extremity red-brown, the ventral surface white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grey-white mixed with red-brown; subbasal line blackish, angl
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 208 fuscous; palpi with blacic patch on 2nd joint near extremity, the 3rd joint black in front; blackish bars on frons and between antennoe; tegulse with black line at base and dark medial band, the patagia with dark spot at base and streak near upper edge ; pectus brownish white ; legs white, mixed with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen fulvous 3'eriow, the extremity red-brown, the ventral surface white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grey-white mixed with red-brown; subbasal line blackish, angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold, a short black streak beyond it on costa ; antemedial line blackish with more or less rufous suffusion before it, oblique, waved ; reniform ob- scurely defined by brown and with some rufous suffusion beyond it, an oblique dark bar above it from costa ; a pale spot obscurely defined by brown below end of cell; postracdial line black, forming a small spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and. Fig-. 10. — Corisce arnica, (^. slightly sinuous, angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardly oblique and minutely dentate, moi'e strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line whitish, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 7; a slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex; a crenulate blackish terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the terminal area black from apex to vein 2, its inner edge excurved, a black spot at extremity of vein 1 ; the termen narrowly yellowish white at apex ; the cilia yellowish white at apex, then fuscous with some whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing pale ochreous yellow, an obliquely curved black-brown medial band, the terminal area black-brown, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge slightly angled outwards at submedian fold ; hind wing yellow, the costal area whitish, an oblique black band from middle of costa. Please note that these images ar
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