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NEW NORTH AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. H. Fernald
Affiliation:
Amherst, Mass.

Extract

Teras comandrana, n sp.

Expanse of wings 13 mm. Head, palpi thorax, and basal half of forewings, light yellowish-brown or fawn coloured. A large cinnamonbrown tringular spot rests on the costa, extending from the middle to the outer fourth, and the apex extends nearly half way across the wing. The outer part of the wing is light cinnamon-brown, and the whole surface is crossed by numerous oblique, irregular metallic band, which are visible only in an oblique light. A row of minute black tufts alon ghe inner side of the costal spot, two or three more near the fold below, one on each side of the fold at the basal third of the wing, and three near the middle of the wing at the outer fourth. Fringe concolorous with the outer part of the wing.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1892

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