. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 14 noctcidj:. 1135. Trichorhiza peterseni. Hhhogmmma peterseni, Clii-ist. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 76, pi. iv. f. 3 (1887) ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 183. S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulce brown at tips; abdomen grey irrorated Avith brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by brown striag from costa and median nervure ; a black streak with slight brown suffusion below it below the cell from base to the antcmedial line, which is indistinct and angled outwards in submedian fold a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 14 noctcidj:. 1135. Trichorhiza peterseni. Hhhogmmma peterseni, Clii-ist. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 76, pi. iv. f. 3 (1887) ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 183. S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulce brown at tips; abdomen grey irrorated Avith brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by brown striag from costa and median nervure ; a black streak with slight brown suffusion below it below the cell from base to the antcmedial line, which is indistinct and angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin ; claviform defined by a slight brown line above; orbicular and reniform small, defined by brown, the former oblique elliptical; postmedial line unusually near termen, very minutely waved, double, slightly bent outwards below costa,. Fig. 6.— Trichorhuapeterseni, J. f. oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique ; subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7, retracted to postmedial line at vein 5, dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, then retracted to postmedial line at sub- median fold, the area beyond it brown except at apex and inner margin ; a lunulate terminal black line ; cilia intersected with whitish, Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of points on the Veins. Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 c5', Issyk-kul; "W. Siberia, Altai, 1 (5; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 1 c? • J^^rp. 38 millim. Genus DISCESTRA, nov. Type, B. chart aria. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front ; frons witb seiuilunate corneous prominence with raised edges ; a corneous plate below frons; eyes large, rounded; antenna; of male ci hated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with ;, the pro- and nietathorax with divided crests; abdomen with doi-sal series of crests. Fore wing with veins 3, f^ from near angle
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