This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...simple; thorax and abdomen without tufts. Fore wing with the cilia not crenulate; vein 8 given off from 7 and anastomosing with 9 to form the areole. 2015. Megalodes kashmirensis, n. sp. cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing yellowish grey; a narrow curved antemedial white band; the orbicular and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...simple; thorax and abdomen without tufts. Fore wing with the cilia not crenulate; vein 8 given off from 7 and anastomosing with 9 to form the areole. 2015. Megalodes kashmirensis, n. sp. cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing yellowish grey; a narrow curved antemedial white band; the orbicular and reniform indistinct; an oblique nearly straight postmedial and curved narrow submarginal white band: an indistinct marginal crenulate white line. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia whitish. Hab. Gulmurg, Kashmir (Johnstone), Exp. 28 millim. Type in cull. Elwes. 2016. Megalodes denticuloaa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 676; C. $ S. no. 2135. Cupreous red-brown; thorax and fore wing irrorated with white scales, the latter with indistinct waved antemedial and highly excurved postmedial line; traces of the reniform stigma; highly dentate submarginal and fine marginal lines white; abdomen and hind wing paler; cilia of both wings grey. Hab. Poona; Bombay; Coimbatore. Exp. 26 millim. Genus TAR ACHE. Tarache, Hitbn. Verz.y. 261 (1818). Euphasia, Stefih. IIl. Brit. Ent., Hawst. iii, p. 115 (1829). Agrophila, Gum. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x, p. 223 (1840;. Type, T. lueida, Hiifn. Range. Universally distributed in the tropical, subtropical, and warmer temperate zones. Differs from Hyela in the palpi being porrect, the frons with a rounded corneous projection. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs. Sect. I. (Tarache). Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from the cell. A. Palpi with thf '3rd joint short and not reaching beyond the from. 2017. Tarache lueida, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii, 302 (1767). Noctua solan's, Schiff. Wien. J'erz. p. 90. Noctua albicollis, fabr. Spec. Ins. ii, p. 218. Nocfua rupicola, liorkh. Si'hmett. Eur. iv, p. 82. Noctua titania, Freyer, Beitr. Schmett. vi, pi. 5...
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