. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 580 TfOCTiriDJ^. ales ; frons with lateral black spots ; tegulse with black spots at ase ; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen, reddish brown; the crests dark brown, the ventral surface greyish with series of black points, Fore wing greenish grey irrorated with black and suiJused in parts with brown ; subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa and cell, an oblique black striga beyond it across the cell; antemedial line indistinct, double, black, much interrupted, oblique from costa to above
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 580 TfOCTiriDJ^. ales ; frons with lateral black spots ; tegulse with black spots at ase ; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen, reddish brown; the crests dark brown, the ventral surface greyish with series of black points, Fore wing greenish grey irrorated with black and suiJused in parts with brown ; subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa and cell, an oblique black striga beyond it across the cell; antemedial line indistinct, double, black, much interrupted, oblique from costa to above vein 1 and bent inwards to inner margin, an oblique black, line before it from submedian fold. Fig. 142.—Erioptis variegata, (^. |. to inner margin ; orbicular a minute somewhat V-shaped mark defined by black ; reniform with two oblique black lines on inner side, its outer and lower edges faintly defined by black and with two obliquely placed white points at lower extremity defined by black; an oblique blackish shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line with oblique white streaks above veins 7 and 6, then faint, slightly defined by brown on inner side, waved and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with fine yellowish line at base. Hind wing reddish brown, whitish at base ; cilia yellowish, brown at tips ; the underside greenish white irrorated with black, the inner area tinged with red-brown, an oblique blackish bar from middle of costa, slight discoidal lunule, crenulate postmedial line, and some blackish points on a]Dical part of termen. Bab. Bhutan (Dudgeon), 1 <S; Assam, Khtisis, 1 § type; Bokneo, Sarawak. Exj). d 24, 5 30 millim. d. Fore, mid, and hind tibia of male with large tufts of hair and scales above. Fore wing without white spot beyond the clavi- form. «2.
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