Identifier: discoveriesinaus00stok (find matches)
Title: Discoveries in Australia;
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Stokes, John Lort, 1811-1885
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London : T. and W. Boone
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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verse macular white band, in which are a seriesof fuscous spots; the margin slightly shaded with pale grey.Posterior wings light chesnut brown, with some fuscescentclouds, towards the outer margin. Below, light brown, theanterior wings rather fulvescent, all with some darker clouds. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey above, beneath paler : an-tennae black, ringed with white. Exp. alar. 1 un. 3 lin. Hab. New Holland. Agarista Leonora. All the wings purplish black, anterior with a short bluishwhite striga close to the base, followed at a short distance by asecond curved one, united to the former by a vitta of the samecolour, extending along the radial nervure ; towards the ex-tremity of the discoidal cell is a white spot, followed by threesmaller, not always well defined ones, on the costa below anda little beyond which are four generally more distinct ones, ofwhich the third from the costa is largest, these are followed bya slightly flexuous and bluish white macular striga, beyond Ins, PI.
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APPENDIX. 519 which is a series of from three to five spots of the same colour.Near the anal angle is a round bluish spot, preceded, in partsurrounded by a semicircle of the same colour, between whichand the second transverse striga is an irregular spot, alsobluish. Posterior wings with a macular band, not extendingto the anterior margin. Cilia of all the wings white, spottedexcept at the apex of the anterior with black. Below, purplishblack, the base of all the wings slightly marked with bluish,the anterior with a distinct white spot near the extremity ofthe discoidal cell, and a macular white band beyond themiddle, beyond which near the costa is a bluish spot; poste-rior wings with a band corresponding to that above, connectedwith outer margin by a less distinct bluish white band. Head yellow-white, forehead and vertex black, antennaeblack. Thorax black, with two transverse lines anteriorly and thesides posteriorly yellowish, legs black, spotted with white,densely clothed with fulvo

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