The name refers to the yellowish-brown ground color of the maculation.

Most of the maculation of the forewing is obscure.

Adults are extremely variable in colour and maculation.

The forewings have a greyish ground color with rather obscure maculation apart from two black cross lines.

In the darker, more common form, the forewing is reddish brown with the maculation sharply defined by dark-red lines.

The forewings are deep smoky with little trace of maculation but with a fair-sized discal dot.

Poecilopharis kerleyi Allard, 1995 Shiny, sparkling green, weak elytral orange maculation.

Poecilopharis moana Moser, 1908 From the Moa island, copper green with an orange maculation.

Poecilopharis porioni Allard, 1995 Green colour with gold and reddish reflections, weak orange maculation.

The dorsal forewing is reddish brown with obscure maculation, except for slightly paler antemedial and postmedial lines.

The name mixta is from the Latin mixtus, meaning mixed or mingled and refers to the blotchy confused appearance of the fore wing maculation.

Adults are practically identical to Eupithecia cestata in colour and maculation of the forewings and in all outward structural characters.

The forewings are brownish with practically no trace of maculation except for a small black discal dot and two variably distinct, whitish, subterminal lines.

Poecilopharis schochi buloloensis Allard, 1995 From a place close to Bulolo, an insect usually small, with a very extensive orange maculation.

A hundred kilometres behind her, twenty-seven fusion bombs arrayed in an ammonite maculation detonated simultaneously, throwing up a temporary visual and electronic barrier.

Crohmălniceanu sees Bonciu's work in lyric poetry as illustrating the sense of hopelessness, coldly disguised under allusions to sadomasochism, or "the taste for maculation".

The maculation of the forewings is obscure, but in well-marked specimens the median area is shaded with smoky and forms an oblique band across the wing.

The pale form of H. alamosa looks like the specimens have been bleached, so the forewing is light orange with the maculation weakly defined by fine yellow lines.

Poecilopharis truncatipennis (Ritsema), 1881 Described as Schizorhina truncatipennis, an insect from the Key island, with orange maculation in a black ground colour.

The specific name is formed from the Latin prefix se- (meaning apart or aside) and the species name atacama and refers to the similarity of both species in maculation.

Poecilopharis schochi lufaensis Allard, 1995 A subspecies (or a true species) from Lufa, East Highlands Province, small size, chocolate colour with confluent yellow maculation.

Populations from the Cascade Mountains tend to be slightly greyer and have more clearly defined maculation than specimens from the coastal areas of British Columbia, Washington and central California.

The signature mark of all butterflies is the cryptic colour and maculation of the ventral (under) side of their wings, serving to conceal the hibernating butterfly against the substrate on which it rests.

With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside the schooner.