. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ')\4 :. /). Foiv wing with the orbicular ami reniforra almost obsolete. a^. Fore wing dull brown irrorated with whitish californica. //*• Fore wing dull brown snifused witli black insinuata. 2744. Homoglsea carbonaria. (Plate CVII. fig. 25.) Lithopha)ie carhonario, Ilarv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 55 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 230. Head aud thorax purplish broAvn mixed with grey; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, the costal area suffused with grey and fuscous, the inner area with purplish rufous ;
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ')\4 :. /). Foiv wing with the orbicular ami reniforra almost obsolete. a^. Fore wing dull brown irrorated with whitish californica. //*• Fore wing dull brown snifused witli black insinuata. 2744. Homoglsea carbonaria. (Plate CVII. fig. 25.) Lithopha)ie carhonario, Ilarv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 55 (1876); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 230. Head aud thorax purplish broAvn mixed with grey; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, the costal area suffused with grey and fuscous, the inner area with purplish rufous ; subbasal line represented by u faint striga from costa ; antemedial line very indistinctly double, oblique, slightly waved ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ill-defined grey annuli, the former round ; a slight curved medial line ; postmedial line very indistinctly double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish slightly defined by brown on inner side and with two minute dentate black marks below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight brown lunules. Hind wiug grej- with a faint purplish tinge, uniformly suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; the cilia pale; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule. Hah. Canada, Calgary (WoUeij-Dod), 1 c?; , Oregon, Colorado (Bruce, Cockerell), 2 J, Berkeley (Oslco-), 1 c?, 1 2 > California. Exj^. 42-44 millim. Larva. Head slightly bilobed, shining light brown, with dark reticulation and curved vertical band which joins below a large patch before ocelli. Body a little enlarged at joint 12, light brown, thickly mottled and dotted with dark brown, nearly without marks ; dorsal line narrow, straight, whitish ; subdorsal line similar but more obscure; substigmatal line faintly indicated by its upper edge; cervical shield brown, not shining, with very faint pale dorsal
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