. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HTPERSTROTIA. 559 5838. Hyperstrotia setheria. Thalpochares atheria, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 47 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 313. Head and thorax white mixed with brown, the head with blackish bands on frons and between antennae, the tegulaB with brown medial band, the patagia black at base ; tarsi blackish with slight pale rings ; abdomen brown with whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing white tinged in parts with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the inner area rufous to postmedial
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HTPERSTROTIA. 559 5838. Hyperstrotia setheria. Thalpochares atheria, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 47 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 313. Head and thorax white mixed with brown, the head with blackish bands on frons and between antennae, the tegulaB with brown medial band, the patagia black at base ; tarsi blackish with slight pale rings ; abdomen brown with whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing white tinged in parts with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the inner area rufous to postmedial line where it is met by an oblique band from costa before apex, blackish to postmedial line then rufous ; a subbasal black striga from costa and short streak in cell; a triangular black patch on costa before the antemedial line, which is black,. Fig. 153.—Hyperstrotia atheria, cJ- -f- angled outwards in cell, then oblique, a triangular brown shade beyond it from costa ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below costa and inwards below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, white, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and ending at tornus; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with pale red-brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, diffused sub- terminal line, and terminal series of small lunules. Hab. ; Florida, Enterprize, 1 c?, 1 $ , Tampa, 1 $ type. Exj). 26 millim. *5839. Hyperstrotia oletta. (Plate CLXV. fig. 22.) Erastria oletta, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxx. p. 161 (1904). 5 . Head and thorax white suffused in parts with rufous ; pectus and legs ochreous white; abdomen fuscous brown, pale at base, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing with the basal half bright rufous, the terminal half greyish suffused and irrorated with rufous ; antemedial line white, bent inwards to costa, slightly angled inwards i
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