. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ilKKATUKTH. 443 4137. Micratlietis triplex. iMphygma triplex, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). Laphygma spilumda, Wlk. xxxii. 648 (18fi.'>). Galgula contraria, Regensb. xxii. p. 153 (18«8). Caradnna cnninva, Harv. Can. Eat. viii. p. 6 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 196. Cnradrina sithciquila, Ilarv. Can. Kiit. x. p. 57 (1878); Sniitli, Cat. Noet. JN'. Am. p. 196. Head and thorax white tinged with yellow and irrorated with a few black scales ; palpi with the 2nd joint bhick at sides ; tibi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ilKKATUKTH. 443 4137. Micratlietis triplex. iMphygma triplex, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). Laphygma spilumda, Wlk. xxxii. 648 (18fi.'>). Galgula contraria, Regensb. xxii. p. 153 (18«8). Caradnna cnninva, Harv. Can. Eat. viii. p. 6 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 196. Cnradrina sithciquila, Ilarv. Can. Kiit. x. p. 57 (1878); Sniitli, Cat. Noet. JN'. Am. p. 196. Head and thorax white tinged with yellow and irrorated with a few black scales ; palpi with the 2nd joint bhick at sides ; tibia) and tarsi blackish above ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing yellowish white tinged with rufous and sJiglitly irrorated with fuscous ; the basal area with three black points on median nervure ; antemedial line represented by an indistinct double curved series of black points ; orbicular represented by a minute. Fig. 120.—Mii-ralhcfis triplex, ^. black point; reniform with black lunule in centre and pale annulus slightly defined by black ; medial line diffused, black and oblique from costa to reniform, very faint from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmediai line represented by a double curved series of black points ; subterminal line defined by dark sufiusion on inner side, minutely waved, arising from below apex, incurved at discal fold and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing semihyaline white; a slight dark terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area tinged with oshreous and irrorated with brown, Ab. 1. Fore wing pale grey ; hind wing greyish, the terminal area tinged with brown. Ab. 2. subaquila. Head, thorax, and fore wing much more strongly suffused with rufous. Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing sufiused with dark brown. J-Jab. , Texas, 3 c5', 1 $ , types cuiiviva and subaquila, Cali- fornia (D'Urban), 1 c? ; Mexico, Guerrero {H. H. Smith), 1 c5', Presid
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