. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. G48 NOCXUIDiE. Sect. III. Fore wing with the termen hardlj excised below apex and obliquely curved below veiu 3. A. (Vterogonia.) Fore wing of male with vein 1 highly sinuous towards termen, the median nervure strongly curved upwards, then bent downwards to lower angle of cell, the neuration distorted near angles of cell; claspers very large and flattened. 7101. Pterogonia episcopalis. Vterogonia episcopalis, Swinh. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1891, p. 152; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 363. S . Head and thorax violaceous grey irrorated with
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. G48 NOCXUIDiE. Sect. III. Fore wing with the termen hardlj excised below apex and obliquely curved below veiu 3. A. (Vterogonia.) Fore wing of male with vein 1 highly sinuous towards termen, the median nervure strongly curved upwards, then bent downwards to lower angle of cell, the neuration distorted near angles of cell; claspers very large and flattened. 7101. Pterogonia episcopalis. Vterogonia episcopalis, Swinh. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1891, p. 152; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 363. S . Head and thorax violaceous grey irrorated with a few brown scales, the vertex of head and teguhe with slight brown streak; fore tibia3 ferruginous, the tarsi black-brown ringed with white; abdomen pale brown with slight whitish segmental Hues, the claspers fringed with rufous hair, the ventral surface whitish except towards extremity. Fore wing violaceous whitish irrorated. Fig. 265.—Tterogonia episcopalis, (^. \. with a few black-brown scales, the antemedial costal area tinged with rufous, the area to beyond the cell except below vein 1 with numerous striae which are rufous on costal area, blackish along median nervure and in and beyond end of cell; a white subbasal line defined on outer side by rufous from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, whitish, defined on outer side by blackish to vein 1, oblique to below vein 1, then erect, angled outwards below costa and at median nervure and inwards at submedian fold; a conical silvery patch at end of cell defined by rufous, and with small silver spots defined by rufous beyond its extremity at angles of cell and a small black spot below lower angle of cell; slight rufous marks above and below base of vein 7; postmedial line indistinct, whitish defined on outer side by slight rufous spots from vein tj to 1, somewhat oblique to vein 7 and incurved at discal fold and in submedian interspace; a subterminal series of small black spots except towards apex and torn
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