List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Noctuidaeorder of the Trustees, 1856 - Lepidoptera |
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Page 252 - PREFACE. THE object of the present Catalogue is to give a complete List of all the genera and species of Hemiptera Heteroptera known to exist in the collections of European and American Entomologists.
Page 159 - Male. Body short, thick, very hairy. Palpi thick, very short, hairy; third joint very small. Tongue very short. Antennae rather deeply pectinated. Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. Legs moderately stout; hind tibiae with two rather long middle spurs and two minute apical spurs. Wings narrow, rather long. Fore wings straight in front, slightly rounded and not angular behind; first and second inferior veins almost contiguous at the base; third about six times nearer to the second than to...
Page 56 - Fore wings rather short and broad, hardly oblique along tue exterior border, with two irregular black dincal ringlets, with a widely interrupted black stripe, and with two black bands, each of which forms a distinct X where it traverses the stripe ; interior band undulating, interrupted; exterior band zigzag ; expanse of wings 14 to 16 lines. (Walker...
Page 329 - Abdomen and hind wings cinereous. Fore wings mostly ferruginous; the usual transverse lines hoary and blackish, and very distinct ; the exterior one curved, the submargiual one undulating; a short discal deep black streak extending to the reniform spot and interrupted by the orbicular one; the latter is irregularly oval, and not much smaller than the reniform, which is hardly excavated. Length of the body, 7 lines; of the wings, 14 lines. "a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented...
Page 419 - Male. Body rather slender, nearly linear, moderately long. Palpi hairy, much shorter than the head ; third joint conical, not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae moderately pectinated. Abdomen elongate-fusiform, extending for onefourth of its .length beyond the hind wings, forcipated at the tip. Legs rather slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings rather long and narrow. Fore wings hardly convex in front, slightly angular behind ; first and second inferior...
Page 327 - Antennas black, moderately pectinated. Abdomen paler than the thorax. Fore wings with black marks at the base, with a slight black streak in the disk, with an incomplete black band, with exterior black streaks, and with black marginal lunules ; a black, subquadrate spot between the orbicular and reniform spots which are indistinct. Hind wings cinereous, brownish toward the border; ciliio whitish. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 14 lines. " a. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq.
Page 279 - Body bluish purple. Head, fore part of the thorax, tip of the abdomen and fore coxae crimson. Palpi shorter than the head ; third joint conical, less than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antenna wanting. Abdomen extending for one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs purplish-black, moderately stout. Wings black, tinged with green and purple, rather long and narrow ; first and second inferior veins of the fore wings near together at the base ; third full twice further from...
Page 61 - ... brownish crest. Thorax with a brownish stripe along each side. Abdomen with a black dot on each segment. Fore wings with several slender undulating or angular, dark brown bands, and with a transverse more distinct streak by the interior angle, near which there is a brown spot. Hind wings brown, yellow towards the base. Length of the body 6 lines, of the wings 14 lines. St. Domingo.
Page 476 - Hind wings reddish-hoary, the reddish tinge most prevalent towards the exterior border. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 Unes.
Page 746 - Fore wings minutely speckled with black, wirti black costal marks, and with very incomplete black transverse lines ; orbicular spot obsolete; reniform indicated by some black marks; a broad exterior ferruginous band, partly divided by a whitish line from the pale ferruginous marginal band.