. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 48-4 NOCTUID^. and legs clothed with white and pink hair ; ahdomeu black, the nnnl tuft and ventral surface with white and pink hair. Fore wing dark brown mostly suffused with purplish pink, the medial and terminal areas with opalescent blue; an indistinct inwardl}' oblique cupreous red antemedial band connected by a streak with the cupreous red medial band which arises from the dark discoidal lunule and is ex- curved below vein 2 ; a white postmedial band from below costa to vein 1 where it narrows to a point; cilia dark brown
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 48-4 NOCTUID^. and legs clothed with white and pink hair ; ahdomeu black, the nnnl tuft and ventral surface with white and pink hair. Fore wing dark brown mostly suffused with purplish pink, the medial and terminal areas with opalescent blue; an indistinct inwardl}' oblique cupreous red antemedial band connected by a streak with the cupreous red medial band which arises from the dark discoidal lunule and is ex- curved below vein 2 ; a white postmedial band from below costa to vein 1 where it narrows to a point; cilia dark brown at base, mixed with whitish at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow, paler on costal area before the black-brown terminal band which narrows to a point at toruus ; cilia purplish piiik and white mixed. Underside of fore wing dark brown, the costal and terminal areas tinged with pink ; hind wing orange with the basal half of costal area pink, the ter- minal area white, narrowing to a point at tornus and tinged with pink except towards costa. Hab. KiJRDisxAisr, Malatia, 1 5 • 26 millim. 4972. Janthinea frivaldszci. HcUothis frlvalchzkii, Dup. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 633, pi. 18 i. ff. 2, 3; Friv. Magyar Tud. Tarsag. Evk5nvv. iii. p. 173, pi. 7. f. 3 (1838); Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 432, pi. 38. f. 6; Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 215-16; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. Heliothis viola, Frr. Nene Beitr. iii. 16. pi. 201. f. 4 (1836). Head and thorax purplish pink with opalescent blue streaks on upper edge of patagia and vertex of thorax ; palpi above and lower part of Irons whitish ; eyes ringed with white ; antennte blackish ; pectus and legs bluish Avhite, the tibine with some pink hair, the tarsi with brownish rings ; abdomen black with some pink hair, the. Fig. 230.—Jantidnea frivaldszci, ^. \. ventral surface white. Fore wing piirplish pink suffused with opalescent blue especially on costal area before the antemedial line, on basal halt' of medial area, and
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