. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AKGYEOSTEOXIS. 155 base, white at tips; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated. with red-brown, traces of diffused postmedial and Subterminal brown lines. Hah. , Southern States, 2 6. Exp. 36-40 millim. 7942. Argyrostrotis contempta. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 5.) Poaphila coniemfia, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 302 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 358. Poaphila placata, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 184 (1878); Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 359. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antennae with the shaft
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AKGYEOSTEOXIS. 155 base, white at tips; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated. with red-brown, traces of diffused postmedial and Subterminal brown lines. Hah. , Southern States, 2 6. Exp. 36-40 millim. 7942. Argyrostrotis contempta. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 5.) Poaphila coniemfia, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 302 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 358. Poaphila placata, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 184 (1878); Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 359. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antennae with the shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown; antemedial line very indistinct, brown, excurved and slightly waved; traces of a brown discoidal bar; postmedial line indistinct, brown, oblique, waved ; traces of an oblique sinuous subterminal line ; a slight dark terminal line. Hind wing bright red-brown, with a slight dark terminal line ; the underside somewhat greyer with slight discoidal striga and traces of diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. Hah. , Southern States, Georgia, 2 (J, 2 $ ij^Q placata, Florida {Douhleclay), 1 5 . Exp. 26-30 millim. 7943. Argyrostrotis deleta. PoapMla dclela, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 300 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 358. c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antenna; with the shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown, the terminal area with faint greyish irroration ; antemedial line indistinct, brown,. Fig. 1(3.—Argyrostrotis deleta, J. \. faintly defined on each side by rufous, excurved and slightly waved; a slight dark discoidal lunule; postmedial line jtist beyond the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 10th bart. , 1860-1936. London : Printed by Orde
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