. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 16 NOCTUID^. patagia dark brown; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with red- brown, the crests dark. Fore wiug purplish grey slightly irrorated with brown; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa: a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line which is indistinctly double and very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform very small aud indistinctly defined by dark scales ; postmedial line somewhat dentate, bent outwards beloAV cos
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 16 NOCTUID^. patagia dark brown; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with red- brown, the crests dark. Fore wiug purplish grey slightly irrorated with brown; subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa: a fine black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line which is indistinctly double and very strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform very small aud indistinctly defined by dark scales ; postmedial line somewhat dentate, bent outwards beloAV costa and oblique below vein 4, with a distinct dentate dark mark on a whitish streak in submedian fold ; a black streak above vein 4 to near termen where ^*#-" ^ k r >^:^:%.. Cucullia serraticornis, (^. it is met by an oblique series of short streaks from termen below apex; short streaks above extremities of veins 3 and 2, and an oblique subterminal streak below vein 2 to a slight streak in sub- median fold beyond the postmedial line ; cilia intersected with fuscous. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas, and termen tinged with red-brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a black streak on median nervure and small discoidal lunule. § . Fore wing suffused with brown ; hind wing nearly uniformly suffused with reddish brown. Hab. , California, Sanzalito (BeJirens), 3^,1$. Exjy., S 46, $ 50 millim. 2071. Cuculiia hrucei. (Plate XCVI. fig. 22.) Raiicora hmoei, Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. loG (1903). 5 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with red-brown ; tegulse with black line near base, two slight medial lines and brown tips; patagia slightly edged with brown above; abdomen red- brown mixed with grey. Fore wing purplish grey, suffused and irrorated with dark brown; a prominent black streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line which is very indistinct, strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; faint t
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