. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GR^PERIA. 679 black and red-brown scales strongly incurved below vein 4; sub- terminal line ochreous wbite defined on inner side by slight red- brown marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then bent inwards and oblique to tornus; a terminal series of small black spots defined on inner side by white; cilia red-brown at base, purple-grey at tips, with white patch at middle and some white at tips at apex. Hind wing ochreous white suff'used with red-brown ; cilia ochreous white with a brown line near base; the underside whit
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GR^PERIA. 679 black and red-brown scales strongly incurved below vein 4; sub- terminal line ochreous wbite defined on inner side by slight red- brown marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then bent inwards and oblique to tornus; a terminal series of small black spots defined on inner side by white; cilia red-brown at base, purple-grey at tips, with white patch at middle and some white at tips at apex. Hind wing ochreous white suff'used with red-brown ; cilia ochreous white with a brown line near base; the underside whitish with brown discoidal striga and more or less distinct post- medial line excurved at middle and obsolete on inner area. Hub. , Colorado, 2 S type, Denver, 1 c?, Nevada, Kew Mexico, Albuquerque {Oslar), 1 S, Arizona, Catalina Mts. (Oslar), 4 2 , Tucson (Oslar), 4 $ . Exp. 22-26 millim. Sect. III. Frons with the plate at middle shorter and with straight outer edge. A. Frons with the plate below it produced to a slight point at middle. a. Fore wing with the basal area white conocharodes. b. Fore wing with the basal area grey irrorated with white, megocula. 6025, GrrsBperia conocharodes, n. sp. (S. Head and thorax white ; palpi at tips, frons, antennae, fore tibiae, and the tarsi tinged with brown; abdomen white faintly tinged with brown on dorsum. Fore wing with the basal half pure white, the terminal half violaceous grey, its inner edge angled out- wards in cell to the reniform and slightly in submedian fold, some black on it below the cell; a subbasal grey mark in cell; ante- medial line faint, grey, waved ; orbicular a black point; reniform. Fig. 193.— Grcsperia conocharodes, J. \. grey with black annulus defined by white, round; a small white postmedial spot on costa ; the postmedial line represented by a few black scales, strongly incurved below vein 4 and more distinct on inner area; subterminal line white, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series
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