. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. noG xof':. R170. Diphthera ccenobita. Bomh,/.v copiiohUa, Esp. Sclimetl. iii. ji. lOG, pi. HT. f. 7 & pi. 82, f. 2 (ll'SF)); J[ubn. Eiii'. Scluiiett, Bomb. ff. 72, 73 & Noct. f. 508; Diip. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. lUi. f. 4; Frey, Beitr. pi. 17; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. Head and tlioi'ax oclnvous wliite; anteniijp h\ac\\ Avitli tlio liranches brown ; j)alpi and sides of frons black ; tegidse Idack at base and vvitli black dorsal streak ; patagia witb l)lack patches at base, middle, and tips ; pro-, meso-, and metath
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. noG xof':. R170. Diphthera ccenobita. Bomh,/.v copiiohUa, Esp. Sclimetl. iii. ji. lOG, pi. HT. f. 7 & pi. 82, f. 2 (ll'SF)); J[ubn. Eiii'. Scluiiett, Bomb. ff. 72, 73 & Noct. f. 508; Diip. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. lUi. f. 4; Frey, Beitr. pi. 17; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. Head and tlioi'ax oclnvous wliite; anteniijp h\ac\\ Avitli tlio liranches brown ; j)alpi and sides of frons black ; tegidse Idack at base and vvitli black dorsal streak ; patagia witb l)lack patches at base, middle, and tips ; pro-, meso-, and metathorax with large paired black spots; pectus brownish Avbite, l)lackish in front; tibiie and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen black, the anal tuft and ventral surface white, lateral and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing creamy white ; a small black spot below base of cell; two subbasal black-brown marks on costa, a ])atch below the cell and spot above inner margin ; a small round black spot in middle of cell; reniform white defined by black except above and "with white spot before it on the black-brown medial band which is. Fig. 95.—Dijilithcra cjenohita, (^ waved to lower angle of cell, then the whole medial area black- brown ; postmedial line black-brown, dentate, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, defined on inner side by some whitish on the dark medial area ; a black-brown subterminal band with dentate edges, strong towards costa, at middle, and towards inner mai-gin, .somewhat incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; some dentate black-brown marks before termen with a large patch between veins 6 and 4; a terminal series of black-brown bars; cilia chequered black-brown and white. Hind Aving whitish suffused with brown, the interspaces rather paler; traces of a diffused sinuous dark sul)terminal band ending on termen at vein 1 ; a dark terminal line ; cilia chequered brown and white ; the underside wliite, an antomedial black-brown band fi-om costa t
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