. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 404 NOCTUID-E. Avhitisli, angled inwards to the postmedial line at discal fold, with slightly darker marks be\v)nd it below costa, at discal fold and below veins 3 and 2 ; a terminal series of indistinct luniiles defined by slight white irroration before them ; cilia pale at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a black discoidal luniile; the terminal area purplish red with waved inner edge, a black and whitish bar at inner margin and slight whitish bar before termeu in snbmedian fold. Underside of fore wing yellow, t
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 404 NOCTUID-E. Avhitisli, angled inwards to the postmedial line at discal fold, with slightly darker marks be\v)nd it below costa, at discal fold and below veins 3 and 2 ; a terminal series of indistinct luniiles defined by slight white irroration before them ; cilia pale at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a black discoidal luniile; the terminal area purplish red with waved inner edge, a black and whitish bar at inner margin and slight whitish bar before termeu in snbmedian fold. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costal area to beyond middle, the orbicular and reniform black-brown, the terminal area red; cilia with series of white poinls at base. Hah. , California, Los Angeles in Xat. Mus. Exi). 38 millim. Larva. Head red-brown with six black spots on each lobe. Body slightly enlarged at joint 13, each segment with a median transverse dark orange stripe containing black dots, the rest with fine transverse black lines on a white ground ; cervical shield nearly whitish, the others orange with black dots.—H. G. D. 4868. Eudryas unio. KuthUcDiutia uvio, Sainml. Exot. Selniiett. Zutr. iii. p. 12. ft'. 431, 4?>-2 (1827); Boisd. Spec. gen. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 9; Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 149. pi. 7. f. 2 ; Riley. Rep. Ins. Miss. vi. p. 90, fig. 24 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 194 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 39. Head and a broad dorsal fascia on thorax dark brown, the latter with a few silvery scales mixed; outer part of tegulae and the patagia pure white, the tegulae with slight white streaks near dorsal edge; pectus white : legs brown and white, the fore tibiae black mixed with white and fringed with Ayhitc, the tarsi with slight white rings; abdomen yellow Avith dorsal and lateral series of blackish spots except towards extremity, the large basal crest dark brown mixed with silverv scales, the anal tuft and ventral. Fig. 190.—Endrt/as unio. (^. surface whi
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