. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 234 KOCXUIDiE. Genus CATABENA. Type. Calabena, Wlk. xxxii. 631 (1865) lineolata. I'urbtUa, Wlk. Char. Undesyr. Het. p. 26 (1869) lineolata. Adipsophanes, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. 8ci. i. p. 181 (1873)... lineolata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle ot' froas and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth; ejes large, round ; autennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the tegular produced to a slight dorsal ridge and hood behind, the
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 234 KOCXUIDiE. Genus CATABENA. Type. Calabena, Wlk. xxxii. 631 (1865) lineolata. I'urbtUa, Wlk. Char. Undesyr. Het. p. 26 (1869) lineolata. Adipsophanes, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. 8ci. i. p. 181 (1873)... lineolata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle ot' froas and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth; ejes large, round ; autennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the tegular produced to a slight dorsal ridge and hood behind, the pro-and metathorax with slight spreading crests; tibiaj fringed with long hair on outer side at base; build slender; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the ternien obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 froiu middle of cbscucellulars, almost obsolete; 6, 7 very shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a minute whitish spot esula. h. Fore wing willi the reniform absent. a'. Fore wing with the orbicular represented by a slight white streak defined by black ; lineolata. hi. Fore wing with the orbicular absent vitrina. B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell terens. 3852. Catabena esula. Xijlina esula, Driice, Biol. , Het. i. p. 297, pi. 28. f. 1 (1889). Head and thorax brown mixed with grej-white; frons black; tegulae with strong black lines at base and middle and slight fuscous line near tips; fore tibiae and mid tibiae towards base black on outer side; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorati
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