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Noctuidae
Hadeninae

Miselia umbrata (SCHAUS, 1911)

Costa Rica
Type locality: Juan Vinas
Seitz: P. umbrata Schs. Eorewing greyish-brown, dusted with lilac, the costal margin and basal half of the cell pale reddish-yellow, below it a black basal ray; the base of the proximal margin is dusted with a brownish black; transverse lines double, behind the distal line the veins are black, strewn with reddish-yellow; the large reniform macula is reddish-yellow, encircled with black, below the cell with a bent black line; the reniform macula is likewise large, brown, in a reddish-yellow ring, before and behind it dark brown shading; from the posterior transverse line there extends behind the cell a broad blackish-brown nebulous stripe to the margin, interrupted by reddish-yellow spots of the undulate line; a similar shade is above the anal angle; in the marginal area between the veins blackish-brown stripes. Hindwing blackish-brown. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Costa-Rica.
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