Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2Grey, George
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Grey, George
Natural history -- Australia -- Western Australia; Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration
Antennae, with the pectinations rusty brown, lighter at the tips, the
stem densely covered with white scales, palpi and head in front deep
ferruginous. Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above,
shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body;
underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a
reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and
somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being
reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more
indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing
nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than
the middle. (In one of the two specimens this band of spots is obsolete,
or nearly so, as are the reddish coloured nervures.) Second pair of wings
of a blush red, the fringe fawn coloured; underside of both wings, more
of a brick colour than the upper surface of second pair; the fringes fawn
coloured; the second pair with a very indistinct band, nearly parallel to
the posterior margin; the nerves on the first pair of wings are lighter
than the general ground, on the second pair darker; space between the
first pair of legs densely clothed with long ferruginous hair; two hind
pair of legs with two strong spurs, one rather shorter than the other;
the tibiae have each a tuft of yellowish white hairs, the legs themselves
are covered with short ferruginous scales or hair, those on the soles of
the tarsus being somewhat ochrey in colour.
Trichetra isabella. Illustration 27 Insects 10.
Alis anticis albis, fasciis tribus apiceque nigris, maculis subocellatis
duobus inter fasciam secundam tertiamque, maculis octo apicalibus;
posticis nigris, basi anguste, apiceque marginali ochraceis. (10 figures
1 and 3)
Antennae destroyed. Triangular tuft between the eyes, reddish ochre, the
sides brown; hairs on thorax white, with a yellowish tinge. The upper
wings have their general surface white, the margin at the base being
ochrey-orange; there are two black parallel bands suffused towards the
outer margin, and in this way connected; a third somewhat diagonal band
is in this manner also connected with the second; near the margin there
is also a connection between the second and third bands by means of a
brownish band interspersed with white scales, and in this are two
subocellated spots, white, with an ochrey-orange roundish pupil; the
second just in front of the third band white in front, and ochrey-orange
behind; behind the third black band there comes a narrow band of white
scales, with an ochrey-orange spot at the end near the outer margin. The
tip of the wing is (broadly) velvety brown, with eight marginal whitish
spots; the fringe is mixed with black and ochrey; the ochrey tingeing the
posterior margin of some of the outer spots.
The under wings are velvety brown; the base being obscurely ochrey; the
yellowish colour running up into brown; the fringe behind is ochrey.
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