. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIERISTIS. TiaClIOCOSMIA. 153 brown. Hind wing whitish oclireons suffused w' brown except ou costal area; cilia wJiitish at ti])S : the und(;rside with the costal area irrorated witli brown, a discoidal point, slight bar from middle of costa, and subterminal line from costa to vein Fig. 46.—Meristis trigrammica, (^. \. Ab. 1. hUliiea. Fore wang suffused with brown, the medial line hardly traceable. Ab. "2. friiKjsi. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines absent, the medial line present. Hah. l^EiTAiN, Leech
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIERISTIS. TiaClIOCOSMIA. 153 brown. Hind wing whitish oclireons suffused w' brown except ou costal area; cilia wJiitish at ti])S : the und(;rside with the costal area irrorated witli brown, a discoidal point, slight bar from middle of costa, and subterminal line from costa to vein Fig. 46.—Meristis trigrammica, (^. \. Ab. 1. hUliiea. Fore wang suffused with brown, the medial line hardly traceable. Ab. "2. friiKjsi. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines absent, the medial line present. Hah. l^EiTAiN, Leech Coll.: FKANcr;; IIollaxd, Zeller Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Fre}-, and Leech Colls.; Austkia, Frey Coll.; Hpngaky; Switzerland; Italy; Daljiaita, Leech Coll.; Balkan Status; ; Eussia, Livonia; Armenia; Asia ]\Iixok, Lontus. Exp. 32-40 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lpp. p. 12;;!; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 297, pi. 222. f. 1. Greyish ochreous, didl reddish brown or dark grey ; dorsal line pale, black-edged at excisions; subdorsal line pale, interrupted, sometimes edged with blackish marks above; spiracular line brown; head brown. Food-plant : Plantago, subterranean in habit. 7-4. Genua TRICH0C03MIA. Trichocosmia, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. G (]S83) . Type. inoi iiafo. Proboscis fully developed ; paljji obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the ord short; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it, eyes large, round; aiitennse of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the protliorax without crest, the metatliorax with spreading crest; tibiae slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at baso only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen eveidy curved and not crennlate ; 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 o, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescen
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