GENUS. EREBUS? _Latr._ Phalæna (Noctua), _Drury_.
EREBUS? OPIGENA. Alis angulatis badio-fuscis, strigis nonnullis undulatis
et dentatis communibus obscurioribus. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Noctua) Opigena, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: Jamaica.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ filiform. Head dark brown. Neck ash colour. Palpi
long and greyish, the extremities being black. Tongue spiral. Thorax,
abdomen, and wings dark russet or grey brown; the latter having some
faint dark indented lines crossing the middle of them, from the anterior
to the posterior and abdominal edges. The tips of the anterior wings
terminate in an obtuse angle.
_Under Side._ Breast, sides, abdomen, legs, and wings very dark brown. A
dark narrow line begins at the anterior edge of the superior wings, about
a quarter of an inch from the tips, and crossing them and the posterior
ones ends at the abdominal edges, just below the body; dividing each wing
into two compartments, that above the line being a degree darker than
that below it; in the centre of each of these divisions is placed a faint
black spot, and along the external edges are several of a smaller size,
and equally faint. Margins of the wings entire.
{42}PLATE XXIII.
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