. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 70S ARCTIADJE. *851 b. Clemensia acropera. Clemensia acropera, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 146. Fore wing with the costa highly arched, the apex produced, the termen slightly angled at middle. 8 â Head and thorax grey-brown, the antenna?, vertex of head, tegulse and metathorax paler ; palpi black, pale in front ; pectus and legs oehreous white, the fore legs and mid tibiae tinged with fuscous; abdomen whitish with slight brown dorsal bands on medial segments, the Ventral surface tinged with brown. Fore. Fig-. 229.âC
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 70S ARCTIADJE. *851 b. Clemensia acropera. Clemensia acropera, D. Jones, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 146. Fore wing with the costa highly arched, the apex produced, the termen slightly angled at middle. 8 â Head and thorax grey-brown, the antenna?, vertex of head, tegulse and metathorax paler ; palpi black, pale in front ; pectus and legs oehreous white, the fore legs and mid tibiae tinged with fuscous; abdomen whitish with slight brown dorsal bands on medial segments, the Ventral surface tinged with brown. Fore. Fig-. 229.âClemensia acropera, <^. \. wing white slightly tinged with brown, the base, costal, and terminal areas fuscous brown, expanding broadly at apex and narrowing to tornus, the brown at base bounded by an irregular oblique fuscous shade ; irregularly waved brown antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines, the 2nd oblique towards costa and strongly bent outwards below median nervure, the 3rd oblique towards costa and incurved below vein 2; a small oblique blackish discoidal spot; cilia pale at tips except at apex, middle, and tornus where there are blackish patches. Hind wing oehreous white ; the underside with the costa tinged with red-brown. Hal). Brazil, Castro Parana, type f <$ in Coll. D. Jones. Eocp, 20 millim. 852 a. Clemensia cincinnata. Clemensia cincinnata, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 367 (1911). Fore wing of male with the median nervure curved upwards and the cell narrow, a patch of rough brown androconia beyond the tuft of hair on underside; hind wing with the cell clothed with closely appressed yellow androconia on upperside. c? . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white ; palpi black ; antennae brown ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown, the fore tibise and tarsi banded with black; abdomen brown. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with black-brown, the terminal area less strongly irrorated, the medial area tinged with brown in sub- median inters
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