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THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE SETON LAKE REGION, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. McDunnough
Affiliation:
Ottawa, Ont.

Extract

♀. Eyes small, ciliate: palpi light ochreous with rough dark hairs; vestiture of head and thorax rough, hairy, dark gray; abdomen light gray with yellow terminal tuft. Primaries pale yellowish, heavily sprinkled with black, producing a dull olivaceous appearance; maculation distinct; t. a. line heavy, black, upright, forming three moderate outcurves of which the central one is the largest, t. p. line dentate, ercurved below costa, then inwardly oblique to inner margin with slight incurve below cell, faintly marked outwardly with pale yellow; median shade diffuse, oblique from costa across reniform, then close and parallel to t. p. line; orbicular moderately large, round, pale-filled, outlined in black; reniform rather narrow, upright, partially outlined in black and obscured by median shade; subterminal and terminal areas rather evenly dark smoky; s. t. line obscure, pale, rather even, emphasized by slight smoky preceding shade; fringes blackish in basal half, cut opposite veins by pale ochreous, paler smoky in outer half.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1927

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