. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 340 NocTUid:. *5521. Parangitia cana. (Plate CLIX. fig. 3.) Parangilia cana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 464 (1909). $ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous and mixed with some dark brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the tarsi brownish with pale rings. Fore wing pale rufous irrorated with dark brown, the medial area and postmedial area, except towards costa, suffused with grey-white; an indistinct blackish subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; traces of an oblique antemedial line, s
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 340 NocTUid:. *5521. Parangitia cana. (Plate CLIX. fig. 3.) Parangilia cana, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 464 (1909). $ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous and mixed with some dark brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the tarsi brownish with pale rings. Fore wing pale rufous irrorated with dark brown, the medial area and postmedial area, except towards costa, suffused with grey-white; an indistinct blackish subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; traces of an oblique antemedial line, slightly angled outwards in submedian fold; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli, the former round, connected by a curved black mark below the cell and with quadrate black spot between them ; a medial dark striga from costa and incurved line from the black mark below the cell to inner margin ; a blackish patch beyond the reniform before the postmedial line, which is doable, excurved and minutely dentate from costa to vein 4, then incurved and bent outwards to inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, incurved below costa, angled inwards at discal fold where there is a blackish patch bej^ond it, incurved and minutely waved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of blackish striae ; cilia chequered rufous and blackish. Hind wing cupreous brown, the terminal area darker; cilia with pale rufous line at base ; the underside whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a brownish bar from middle of costa and curved minutely waved postmedial line, IJah. Peru, S. Domingo (Ocl-enden), type f $ in Coll. Druce. Exp. 34 millim. 5522. Parangitia grisescens, n, sp. Droheta delectans, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 310 (nee Wlk.). S. Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous, the latter irrorated with black ; teguloe wdth black medial line ; tarsi banded wnth browni; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing. Fig. 102.—Faraiigitia
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