. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 332 :. with white; abdomen brown with faint whitish segmental bands. Fore wing with the costal area black-brown slightly tinged with grej^ and with numerous slight pale striae from the costa, defined below by a white fascia bent upwards to termen below apex, the inner area whitish tinged with pink and irrorated with red-brown, the inner and terminal areas with slight dark streaks on the veins; a slight antemedial line arising from middle of submedian fold, very oblique to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 332 :. with white; abdomen brown with faint whitish segmental bands. Fore wing with the costal area black-brown slightly tinged with grej^ and with numerous slight pale striae from the costa, defined below by a white fascia bent upwards to termen below apex, the inner area whitish tinged with pink and irrorated with red-brown, the inner and terminal areas with slight dark streaks on the veins; a slight antemedial line arising from middle of submedian fold, very oblique to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin ;. Fig. 98.— Trogotorna pcrsecta, 5. |. an indistinct oblique diffused medial dark band from cell to inner margin ; traces of an oblique sinuous postmedial line from discal fold to inner margin with slight dark points on the veins ; cilia intersected by whitish streaks on costal half. Hind wing whitish sufFased with red-brown especially on terminal area ; a slight dark discoidal bar; cilia whitish tinged with rufous; the underside white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal bar and postmedial line oblique towards costa, incurved and sinuous below vein 3. Ab. 1. Much more uniform reddish brown with a grey tinge; fore wing with the costal area paler, the inner area browner and no white fascia. Hah. Paraguay, Sapucay (^Foster), 3 5 type. Exp. 26 millim. Genus DROBETA. ^^^^ 2)ro6cte, Wlk. XV. 1705(1858) exscendens. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax without crests, the uiesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibise moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen excurved at middle and excised towards tornus ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper a
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