. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CHARIDEA. 141 teriuen obliquely curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ^ 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the angle; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulara ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- tomosing with the cell near base only. 2248. Charidea elegantissima. Charidea elegantissima, Gueu. Noct. ii. p. 61, pi. 8. f. 12 (1852). S • Head and thorax clothed with grey, red-brown, and dark- brown scales ; fro]is and v
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CHARIDEA. 141 teriuen obliquely curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ^ 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the angle; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulara ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- tomosing with the cell near base only. 2248. Charidea elegantissima. Charidea elegantissima, Gueu. Noct. ii. p. 61, pi. 8. f. 12 (1852). S • Head and thorax clothed with grey, red-brown, and dark- brown scales ; fro]is and vertex of head with black bars ; tegulae with black medial line and darlc red-brown tips ; patagia with whitish band in front; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen pale purplish brown with some whitish hair at base and slight white segmental lines, the ventral surface dark brown mixed with rufous and whitish, and with ventral series of small white spots. Fore wing violaceous-grey tinged with pink and irrorated with brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by black bars from costa and cell defined by white on outer side ; olive-green patclies irrorated with and faintly defined by black on basal area below the cell and vein 1, defined by white above and on outer side; a small black spot in cell before the antemedial line,, which is fine, double, brownish, angled outwards below costa, then very outwardly oblique and slightly downcurved to just above middle of inner margin, where it joins the similar postmedial line which is strongly bent outwards below costa, curved to vein 4, then very oblique to above inner margin; the medial area with large V-shaped olive-green patch, slightly irrorated and edged with black and defined by white lines, its arms arising from subcostal nervure and vein G and its apex above middle of inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with pinkish centres defined by white, the. Fig. 43.— Charidea elegantissima, (^. former a
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