. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 340 NOCTDID^. 4778. Ommatostola lintneri. Ommatostola lintneri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 112 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 185. Head and thorax white tinged with reddish ochreous ; abdomen white. Fore wing white tinged with reddish ochreous except on costal area; the veins streaked with white and irrorated with fuscous; antemedial line represented by slight black points on the veins ; a white streak at lower angle of cell with more prominent black irroration before and beyond it; a postmedial series of
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 340 NOCTDID^. 4778. Ommatostola lintneri. Ommatostola lintneri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 112 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 185. Head and thorax white tinged with reddish ochreous ; abdomen white. Fore wing white tinged with reddish ochreous except on costal area; the veins streaked with white and irrorated with fuscous; antemedial line represented by slight black points on the veins ; a white streak at lower angle of cell with more prominent black irroration before and beyond it; a postmedial series of black. * Fig. 154.â Ommatostola lintneri, (^. \. points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing white, the veins slightly tinged with ochreous ; the underside with the costal area faintly tinged with ochreous. Hah. , New York, 1 c?, 2 $ tj-pe, New Jersey, Anglesea. Exp. 46-50 millim. Genus CALAMIA. Type. Calamia, Hubn. Verz. p. 240 (1827) virens. Luceria, Hein. Schmett. Deutsch. i. p. 442 (Oct. 1859), nee Nov. (1859) vire7is. Zotheca, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 68 (1874) tranquilla. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, short, fringed with long hair ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of male typically minutely serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibife moderately fringed with liair, the fore tarsi with the spines strong; abdomen clothed with hair and with lateral fringes of hair but â without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. {Calamia). Antennae of male minutely serrate. A.
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