. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BRTOCODIA. 477 blue-green and white, the latter with black line near upper edge ; palpi blackish at sides; frons with black bar; tibi83 and tarsi banded with black; abdomen white mixed with rufous, the crests black at tips. Fore wing emerald green, the antemedial costal area, the medial area, and the postmedial area except towards costa and inner margin mostly suffused with rufous ; subbasal line repre- sented by two diffused black bars from costa, a point below base of cell and a spot above vein 1; antemedial line double tow
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BRTOCODIA. 477 blue-green and white, the latter with black line near upper edge ; palpi blackish at sides; frons with black bar; tibi83 and tarsi banded with black; abdomen white mixed with rufous, the crests black at tips. Fore wing emerald green, the antemedial costal area, the medial area, and the postmedial area except towards costa and inner margin mostly suffused with rufous ; subbasal line repre- sented by two diffused black bars from costa, a point below base of cell and a spot above vein 1; antemedial line double towards costa and inner margin, black filled in with white at costa and the veins,. Fig. 135.—£ri/ocodia lepidula, i^. \. incurved in cell and slightly angled inwards at vein 1; orbicular and reniform large, green with incomplete white annuli defined by a few black scales, confluent in lower part of cell and with V-shaped black mark between them in upper part; a medial blackish bar from costa and oblique line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line represented by double black bars from costa filled in with white, then by a series of double black points on the veins with some white between them, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, with alternating black and white spots beyond it on costa; subterminal line only defined by a blackish patch before it on costa and the rufous suffusion at middle, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of black points; cilia chequered blackish and rufous with a black line at middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown; cilia yellowish white with a brown line through them ; the underside yellowish white slightly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Canada, , Maine to New Jersey, New York; Evans Center (Grote), 1 S , Delaware, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Missouri, 1 J, 1 $ type, Colorado. Eccp. 36 millim. 5723. Bryocodia avirida. (Plate CLXIII. fi
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