. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. MYTHIIINA. ()05 Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 107; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 225, pi. 214, f. 1. Pale green, or reddish ochreoiis with darker irroration ; pale dorsal and sometimes subdorsal lines; a lateral series of dark oblique streaks sometimes present; spiracular line pale greenish or whitish; head greenish, i'ood-plants : Sallv, Riunex, Pktntar/o, etc. 5-7. Sect. II. (0,iJiosia). Antenna; of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown ruhricosa. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grej-. a. Fo
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. MYTHIIINA. ()05 Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 107; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 225, pi. 214, f. 1. Pale green, or reddish ochreoiis with darker irroration ; pale dorsal and sometimes subdorsal lines; a lateral series of dark oblique streaks sometimes present; spiracular line pale greenish or whitish; head greenish, i'ood-plants : Sallv, Riunex, Pktntar/o, etc. 5-7. Sect. II. (0,iJiosia). Antenna; of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown ruhricosa. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grej-. a. Fore wing with the lines distinct cacimacula. h. Fore wing with the lines indistinct aenex. 1051. Mythimna rubricosa. Xoctua rubricosa, Schitt'. p. 77 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 176 (1787); Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 430 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 99, pi. 79; Staph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 160; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. Noctua miicida, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 148. f. 4 (1786). Noctua pilicornis, Brahm. Ins. ii. p. 193 (1791). Noctua rufa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 232 (1803). Noctua mista, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., JSoct. f. 509 (1827). Head and thorax purple or red-brown suffused with grey ; palpi blackish except at tips; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing dark red or purple-brown suffused with grey ; a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique. Fig. 106.âM//tki/una rubricosa, (5. ]â waved antemedial line defined by grey on outer side; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former round, the latter with some fuscous in its lower extremity ; an indistinct waved medial shade oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved; the post- medial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled inwards in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4; some whitish points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line brown, slightly angled outwards at vein
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