. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 634 AQAKISTID^. base of costa, patches round the leaden spots, a double minutely waved postmedial line strongly dentate inwards on vein 2 ; pairs of small orange wedge-shaped subterminal spots on each side of the Hind wing with white spots in middle and below end of ¥\—8yfaniahiefi,S- \- cell, and a bar just beyond discocellulars; cilia white at tips; underside with broad orange fascia on costa from near base to beyond middle; the interspaces of terminal area suffused with yellow, narrowing to a point at vein 1. H
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 634 AQAKISTID^. base of costa, patches round the leaden spots, a double minutely waved postmedial line strongly dentate inwards on vein 2 ; pairs of small orange wedge-shaped subterminal spots on each side of the Hind wing with white spots in middle and below end of ¥\—8yfaniahiefi,S- \- cell, and a bar just beyond discocellulars; cilia white at tips; underside with broad orange fascia on costa from near base to beyond middle; the interspaces of terminal area suffused with yellow, narrowing to a point at vein 1. Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 5 d, 1 2 , Che-tou, 1 $, How-kou, 3 2 . Exj). 40 millim. Genus PSEUDALYPIA. Pseudalypia, H. Edw. P. Cal. Acad. v. p. Ill (1874) Type. crotchi. Proboscis fully developed ; bead small, clotbed witb long bail-; palpi short, porrect, dutbed witb long hair ; frons with long triangular corneous process notched at sides ; antennae aliiiost simple, hardly dilated towards extremity; eyes small; thorax hairy ; tibise sinootbly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from end of areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; G, 7 from upper angle. *178. Pseudalypia crotchi. Pseudalypia crotchii, Edw. P. Cal. Acad. v. p. Ill (1874); Stretch, Zyg. & Eomb. N. Am. p. 214, pi. 9. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 33. Pseudali/pia crotchii, var. atrata, H. Edw, Papilio, iv. p. 121 (1884). $ . Black with a slight brown tinge ; palpi at base, the tegulse, and anal tuft golden orange. Fore wing with the costa creamy white from base to the narrow postmedial band, which tapers to a point above inner margin ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing with the cilia creamy white. Ab, 1. atrata. Fore wing with the postmedial band absent. Hah. , S. California. Exj)
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