. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 168 ;. Genus STILBINA. Slilhina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 290 (IS'Jl) Type. hyp(B)i ides. Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, short, moderately fringed with hair below, tbe 3rd joint minute; irons with long bilobed corneous process with tuft of hair above it and shorter corneous plate below it excised in front; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male bipectinate with long branches to a])ex ; build slender ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibije


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 168 ;. Genus STILBINA. Slilhina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 290 (IS'Jl) Type. hyp(B)i ides. Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, short, moderately fringed with hair below, tbe 3rd joint minute; irons with long bilobed corneous process with tuft of hair above it and shorter corneous plate below it excised in front; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male bipectinate with long branches to a])ex ; build slender ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibije smoothly scaled, the spurs long; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witii veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 0,7 sliortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one third. 3705. Stilbina hypaenides. Stilhiim hi/pcenidrs, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 29U, pi. 3. f. 12 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 194. c?. Head yellowish white; sides of palpi and frons red-brown ; thorax ochreous suffused with red-brown ; legs red-brown, the tarsi fuscous with white rings; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale ferruginous, the costal area suffused with brown, the median nervure and base ot veins arising from it sliglitly streaked with white ; a dark mark at base of costa and. Fig. 22.—Stilbina hypceiLidcty, c?- small subbasai black mark above inner margin ; a slight brown streak in basal half of submedian fold dehned by whitish below: antemedial line slight, black, angled outwards below costa and in cell, thfin obsolete ; orbicular a large elongate elliptical black- brown patch ; reniform a black-brown patch truncate above and rounded below, where it is broken up by tbe white on veins at lower angle of cell; postraedial line represented by


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