. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 214 Genus FOTA. Foia, C4rote, Can. Ent. xiv. n. 174 (1882) armata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and fringed with long scales below, the ctrd joint niorlerate; frons with large rounded corneous prominence with raised edges and long pointed central process hidden in long hair, a large corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; tibia smoothly sca
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 214 Genus FOTA. Foia, C4rote, Can. Ent. xiv. n. 174 (1882) armata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and fringed with long scales below, the ctrd joint niorlerate; frons with large rounded corneous prominence with raised edges and long pointed central process hidden in long hair, a large corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; tibia smoothly scaled, the tore tibia with small curved claw on inner side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the margins subpai-allel, the apex rounded, the terraen obliquely curved and not crenulate; 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 3, 4 typically from cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. Sect. I. Hind wing of i'emale with veins 3, 4 stalked. 3826. Fota minorata. Fata minorata, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 181 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 183. Iscadia aperta, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 474 (part.), nee Wlk. Head ami tegula; ochrcous white, palpi, sides of frons and antennpe mixed with brown ; thorax darli grey mixed witli fuscous and whitish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous especially on costal area ; an indistinct curved subbasal line with paler grey before it and beyond it at costa, an elongate pale grey mark defined. Fig. 43.—Fota minorata. J. J- by blackish beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved to submedian fold, then incurved; orbicular and reniform pale grey defined by black, their centres tinged with brown, the former round, the latter ellipti
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