. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 50 (Icnt-ftte Pulitormiiinl wliitish line and scries of white points on terracn. ITiiid w'lUix italc fuscous. Jla/i. CmxA, Clickiiinp: (I'ryer), 1 $ , Foochau ; Assam, Khjieis, 1 6 t}pc. Exji. 24 milliin. Genus DIALITHOPTERA, nov. Typp, I), gemmata. rVoboscis fuUj develoiictl ; palpi obliij lo. extoiuliiig about tlie length of liencl. tlie 2ih1 joint rouglily scaled above aiul below, the ."ircl inimite ; maxillarv jialpi inimito :'froiis with tuft of scales; antenna' in both sexes bi))ectinate, the apical fourt
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 50 (Icnt-ftte Pulitormiiinl wliitish line and scries of white points on terracn. ITiiid w'lUix italc fuscous. Jla/i. CmxA, Clickiiinp: (I'ryer), 1 $ , Foochau ; Assam, Khjieis, 1 6 t}pc. Exji. 24 milliin. Genus DIALITHOPTERA, nov. Typp, I), gemmata. rVoboscis fuUj develoiictl ; palpi obliij lo. extoiuliiig about tlie length of liencl. tlie 2ih1 joint rouglily scaled above aiul below, the ."ircl inimite ; maxillarv jialpi inimito :'froiis with tuft of scales; antenna' in both sexes bi))ectinate, the apical fourth serrate, the basal joint, with ti:ft, of scales; tibiiV with the spurs long. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 0 from below upper angle; 7, H, and 1(J stalked, 9 absent, male with a fovea covered on npperside by a seale-flaj) above base of vein 10; 11 oblique. Hind wing with veins 3,4 stalked from angle of cell; 5 from near middle of discocellulars; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 103. Dialithoptera gemmata. Pimra gemmata, Hmpsn. Tnd. iv. p. 506 (1896); Dudgeou, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 29. Head white; palpi at sides, lower part of frons, and branches of antennne blackish brown : thorax yellowish white ; pectus and legs fuscous ; abdomen white tinged with fuscous. Fore wing yel- lowish white, the costal half suffused with brown and fuscous to middle; silvery blue raised scales on basal area on costa and below cell, on medial part of costal area and on the tufts of scales at upper and lower angles of cell; the postmedial line formed by silvery blue tufts of scales, obtusely angled below costa and slightly angled inwards above vei)i 2 ; the terminal area suffused with brown and fuscous except towards costa ; the stibterminal line irregularly sinuous, retracted to costa and with tufts of silvery blue scales on it. Hind wing fuscous. Ilah. SiKHiM, 1800-3000 ft, {Dudgeon, Pihher), 2 J, 1 $ type. Exp. 20
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