. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 422 NOCTTJIDiE. indistinct diffused blackish subbasal line; antemedial line rather indistinct and diffused, excurved below costa and in submedian interspace; orbicular and reniform represented by small whitish spots indistinct!}' defined by diffused black and almost or quite conjoined ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent. Fig. 144.— Cfeipolia acrophila, (^. ]-. outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, excurv
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 422 NOCTTJIDiE. indistinct diffused blackish subbasal line; antemedial line rather indistinct and diffused, excurved below costa and in submedian interspace; orbicular and reniform represented by small whitish spots indistinct!}' defined by diffused black and almost or quite conjoined ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent. Fig. 144.— Cfeipolia acrophila, (^. ]-. outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, excurved below costa and at middle; the costa towards apex with series of black and grey points ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline grey suffused with fuscous brown; the underside with small discoidal spot. Hab. Kashmir, Kardong, 14,000' (McArthur), 1 cJ, 1 $ type, Hnnza (Sir M. Convjciy), 1 5 • Exi). 24-28 millim. Genus DASYPOLIA. Type. Dasypolia, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 44 (1852) templi. Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect to j ust beyond frons, fringed with long hair below; fi'ons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennoe of male typically minutely serrate with fascicles of very long cilia; head and thorax clothed with long hair only ; tibiie fringed with long hair, the tarsi with short hair; abdomen clothed with rough hair but without crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from or from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate with long branches to apex. *2620, Dasypolia mitis. DasypoUa mitis, Piing. Iris, xis. p. 95 (1906). S . Head and thorax very pale yellow faintly tinged with rufous;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di
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