. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 136 NOCTUID^. grey ; anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with olive, and suffused with black on base of inner and medial areas ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line black, incurved from costa to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform elon- gate, defined by black ; cell filled in by black defining the orbicular and reniform, which are small, grey-brown, the former round, the latter narrowing below ; postmedial line bent
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 136 NOCTUID^. grey ; anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with olive, and suffused with black on base of inner and medial areas ; the subbasal line represented by black spots below costa and cell; the antemedial line black, incurved from costa to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin; claviform elon- gate, defined by black ; cell filled in by black defining the orbicular and reniform, which are small, grey-brown, the former round, the latter narrowing below ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique ; subterminal line represented by a series of small dentate black marks ; a terminal punctiform line ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing yellowish white, suffused and irrorated with brown ; an indistinct discoidal spot and fine dark terminal line ,: cilia yellowish, brown at base. Hah. Er. Col-dmbia, Laggan ; , Colorado (Bruce), 1 $ . Eccp. 32 millim. 240. Orosagrotis rigida. Agrotiphila rigida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xTiii. p. 134 (1891); id. Cat. Noct, N. Ara. p. 110. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with grey ; anal tuit tinged with ochreous. Fore wing olive-brown irrorated with black; the subbasal line defined by white on outer side, waved, from costa to vein 1; the antemedial line oblique, v^aved, angled outwards above inner margin and defined by white on inner side ; claviform outlined with black, and with a white streak from it to postmedial line ; cell filled in with black defining the orbicular and reniform, which have brown centres and white anuuli, the former. Fig. 48. — Orosagrotis 7'igida, J small, round, the latter moderate; the postmedial line minutely dentate, defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then oblique, the area beyond it suffused with grey ; the subterminal line indistinct, grey, with a series of dentate kack marks before it and slightly angl
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