. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XARTnECOPIIORA. AZEXIA. Vuo wing long and narrow, the appx rounded, the ternien obliquely curved and not creuuhite ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle: 9 from 10 anastomosing vs-ith 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *4S26. Nartliecopliora pulverea. ISarihecophoiri, pulcerea. Smith, Proc. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 486(1900); i)yar. Cat
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XARTnECOPIIORA. AZEXIA. Vuo wing long and narrow, the appx rounded, the ternien obliquely curved and not creuuhite ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle: 9 from 10 anastomosing vs-ith 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *4S26. Nartliecopliora pulverea. ISarihecophoiri, pulcerea. Smith, Proc. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 486(1900); i)yar. Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 197. J . Head, thorax, and abdomen ])alc oclireous grcj-ish tinp:ed A\ itli red-brown ; tarsi browner slightlj'ringed with white. Fore wing" gre3'-w"hite thicklj'irrorated with pale red-brown : antemedial line rather diffused red-brown, slightly bent inwards to costa and incurved at vein 1 ; a .small whitish discoidal lunule defined by red-brown ; postmedial line rather diffused red-brown, slightly. Fig. 172.—}\arth€co]:ihora pulverea, (^. \. excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold to reniform, strongly incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1 ; subterminal line hardly traceable, brownish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and with brownish shade beyond it at apex. Hind wing oehreons white faintly tinged with red-brown ; the underside suffused with rufous. Hab. , Arizona. Tucson [Sclavarz), in Nat. ]\Jus. E,rp. 28 millim. Genus AZENIA. Azenia, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 18G (1882) Type. iiuplura Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, reaching to just beyond frontal process; frons with roimded prominence with large tri- lobate corneous plate at middle and corneous plate below it with straight outer edge; eyes large, round ; antenna of male typically laminate and mmuteiy ciliated ; tliorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests ; "tibite smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing r
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