. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 372 Nor'TDiDj:. Genus SYNTHYMIA. Type. Sunihymia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 282 (1827) fi^a. Metoptria, J)up. Cat. Meth. p. 191 (1844) fixa. Proboscis fully developed ; porrect, sl)ort, not. reaching as f«r as frona and fringed witli long hair below; irons with trilobate corneous process and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; tliorax clothed with hair overlaying sciles atid witliout crests; tibife moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but witliout cres
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 372 Nor'TDiDj:. Genus SYNTHYMIA. Type. Sunihymia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 282 (1827) fi^a. Metoptria, J)up. Cat. Meth. p. 191 (1844) fixa. Proboscis fully developed ; porrect, sl)ort, not. reaching as f«r as frona and fringed witli long hair below; irons with trilobate corneous process and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; tliorax clothed with hair overlaying sciles atid witliout crests; tibife moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but witliout crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenu- late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upjier angle; it from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellnlars ; 6, 7 from ujiper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A Hind wing orange with brown terminal band fixa. E. Hind wing white 4823. Synthymia fixa. yoctuafixa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 46 (1794). INoctua monogramma, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., JN'oct. f. 353 (1808); Godt. Lep. Fr. v. pi. 51. ff. 4, 5 ; Mill. Icones, pi. 144. if. 12, 14; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 240. Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with olive-ochreous; pectus, legs, and abdomen oUve-ochreous irrorated with brown, the tarsi with slight pale rings. Fore wing olive-ochreous thickly irrorated with red-brown, the outer ]>art of medial area and the. Fig. 170.—Sijnfhymia fixa, (^ . }. terminal area suffused with red-brown ; a faint pale curved anfe- medial line slightly defined on each side by red-brown ; orbicular and reniform whitish, the former narrow, erect elliptical, the latter narrow, constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure, and both with small dark marks in upper and lower parts ; a faint dark medial line defining the inner side of brown area and slightly an
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