. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MOURTSONTA. 383 represented by double black strite from eosta ; the anteraedial line with a dark striga from costa, then indistinct and strongly angled outwards above vein 1 and inner margin ; claviform incompletely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with obscure ochreous aunuli incompletely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical; the postraedial line strongly dentate, black defined by ochreous on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very obscur
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MOURTSONTA. 383 represented by double black strite from eosta ; the anteraedial line with a dark striga from costa, then indistinct and strongly angled outwards above vein 1 and inner margin ; claviform incompletely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with obscure ochreous aunuli incompletely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical; the postraedial line strongly dentate, black defined by ochreous on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very obscurely defined by the. Fig. \0\.^-Morri!>o7iia confiisa, (^. ]•, area beyond it being slightly darker, with blackish streaks in the interspaces, running obliquely to apex, and with pale dentate marks on veins 4 and 3; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia intersected with ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, especially on terminal area ; the veins dark ; a dark terminal line; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of striae on the veins. Hab. Canad.^ ; , Eastern States, 3 S type infructuosa, Texas, 1 S, California. Ea-j). 40 millim. Larva. Head round, shining light red-brown, reticulate in lighter and paler over the clypeus. Jjody shaded in vinous red, with a rounded, quadrate, deep vinous patch laterally above the spiracle on joints 2 to 12. Fine whits dorsal, lateral, and suprastigmatal lines. Shields not chitinized, coiicolorous ; spiracles white, finely black-rimmed. rood-i)lants : Willow, etc.—H. G. D. 1694. Morrisonia lignana. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 3.) Haclena lignana, Wlk. xi. 7''8 (1857); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 26, pi. v. f. 19. Head and thorax brownish grey slightly mixed with rufous ; tegulte and patagia with black linos near upper edge; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing brownish grey ir
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