. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DICHONIA.âPLEEOMA. 295 the veins slightly streaked with black; a black streak below base of cell defined by whitish above ; antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, strongly angled outwards below costa and above and below vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform brownish grey defined by black, their centres tinged with fuscous, the former elongate ellip- tical, conjoined to an elliptical mark below the cell, often connected with the reniform, which is more or less angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial li
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DICHONIA.âPLEEOMA. 295 the veins slightly streaked with black; a black streak below base of cell defined by whitish above ; antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side, strongly angled outwards below costa and above and below vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform brownish grey defined by black, their centres tinged with fuscous, the former elongate ellip- tical, conjoined to an elliptical mark below the cell, often connected with the reniform, which is more or less angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line bent outward below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; sabterminal line only defined by. Fig. 88.âBichonia areola, ^. \. slight black streaks before it above vein 6 and in submedian inters space, and by the area beyond it being brown with black streaks in, the interspaces, dentate to termen at veins 7, 6, 4, 3. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, the inner area paler, the veins and a fine terminal line darker; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line with short streaks on the veins. Ab. 1. Much greyer.âHyeres, Andalusia. Hah. Bkitain {Barrett), Leech Coll.; Feance, Sand and Leech Colls., Hyeres {Yerhury); Denmakk ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland; Spain, Andalusia, Leech Coll., Catalonia ; Portugal ; North & Cente. Italy ; Sicily ; ? ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, ? Pontus ; Sybia. £a;/?. 32-42 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 52 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 43, pi. 236. f. 2. Pale greyish ochreous ; dorsal line paler, double ; darker brown dorsal blotches on somites 7, 8 ; 11 with small prominence. Pood- plant, Lonieercl. 6-8. â Genus PLEROMA. Type. Fleroma, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 113 (1891) oUiqiiata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with very long hair in front; frons rounded ; eyes
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