. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CEI'HALOSPARGETA. PROTHRiyvX. 22o Hiiul wiiif^ wliitp, the Icrmiiial area suffused wilh ochreous narrow- ing to torn us. 2. Fore wing with diffused dark scales beyond the ante- and postmedial linos. Nab. PoKTo llico, type t J 2 in ;>ru5. Eerlhi. J 22, 2 2i millim. Genus PROTHRINAX, nov. Tv]ie, P. hifcnmnlia. Proboscis small, aborted ; palpi porrect, very short, not reaching as far as the frontal proiiiiueiiceand moderately fringed with hair below; with long bifid plate at middle excised in front and with long tr
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CEI'HALOSPARGETA. PROTHRiyvX. 22o Hiiul wiiif^ wliitp, the Icrmiiial area suffused wilh ochreous narrow- ing to torn us. 2. Fore wing with diffused dark scales beyond the ante- and postmedial linos. Nab. PoKTo llico, type t J 2 in ;>ru5. Eerlhi. J 22, 2 2i millim. Genus PROTHRINAX, nov. Tv]ie, P. hifcnmnlia. Proboscis small, aborted ; palpi porrect, very short, not reaching as far as the frontal proiiiiueiiceand moderately fringed with hair below; with long bifid plate at middle excised in front and with long triangular plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennffi of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the nietathorax with decumbent crest; the patagia slightly turned np at extremity; tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests, i-'ore wing with the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from ne ir angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; U from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli veins ^i, 4 fro!u angle of cell; a obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. ;i842. Prothrinax luteomedia. Aleptina Uifrnnicdia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii. p. 136 (1907). J. Head and thorax black mixed Avith brown and grey ; tegulos mostly grey ; pectus and legs tinged with, brown, the tarsi blackish ; abdomen ochreous suffused with blackish, i'ore wing grey-white irrorated with black-brown, a pale ochreous fascia irrorated with rufous from base of through submedian interspaces to sub- terminal line and thence obliquely to termen from below apex to vein 3; auteuiedial line very indistinct, double, curved, traversing a patch of blackish suffusion towards costa and almost obsolete in Kubmedian interspace ; claviform elongate, faintly defined by rufous ;. Fig. 50.— hdeoraedla, J. j. orbicular s
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