. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. THYKAKCTIA. Genus THYRARCTIA, nov. Type, 7'. ccdo-nulli. Proboscis small; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint fringed with scales in front, tlie ord minute ; antennae pectinate witli moderate branches; a small triangular crest between antenna; teguliu with curled hair at apices; thorax with high triangular crest ; tibife fringed with long hair; abdomen with lateral anal tufts. Fore wing with the costa arched ; the teruien strongly angled at vein 5 ; vein .'} from long before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angl
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. THYKAKCTIA. Genus THYRARCTIA, nov. Type, 7'. ccdo-nulli. Proboscis small; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint fringed with scales in front, tlie ord minute ; antennae pectinate witli moderate branches; a small triangular crest between antenna; teguliu with curled hair at apices; thorax with high triangular crest ; tibife fringed with long hair; abdomen with lateral anal tufts. Fore wing with the costa arched ; the teruien strongly angled at vein 5 ; vein .'} from long before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle; 7. 8, 9. 10 stiilked, 10 from before 7 ; 11 Irom cell. Hind wing with the termen slightly angled at veins 5 and 16; vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from angle, 4 absent; 6, 7 coincident and shortly stalked with 8. *1194. Thyrarctia cedo-nulli. Bombyx cedo-nulU, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. o46. A, B (1782); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 852. cf. Pale red-brown; palpi white in front; frons barred with white ; basal joint of antennoe white ; legs with extremities of femora and tibise and the greater part of tarsi white; abdomen -wdth orange subdorsal fascia? and lateral black spots except on terminal segments, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with slight white striga below base of cell; an oblique line from origin of vein 3 to inner margin before middle ; some dark brown above and below. Fig. 1.— Thijrarvtia ccdo-nulll, (^. origin of vein 2, bisected below it by a pale striga; the end of cell and area just beyond it dark suffused with blue-grey, and with blue-grey lines on its inner edge and discocellulars and an inverted decanter-shaped yellowish hyaline mark in end of cell; a point beyond the cell below vein 6 and three irregular spots between veins 2 and 5 with three s]jots on term(?n beyond them ; a triangular subapical ptitch with its inner edge indented and by two brown veins ; cilia Avhitish with brown. Hind wing with the interspa
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