. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 806 AECTIAD-E. 1148. Nadaria discipimcta. Larva. Piepers. Tijd. t. Ent. xlvii. p. 164. Thickly clothed with hair. Cocoon a circular palisade of hair with the green pupa marked with hrown in the centre, its head angulate and extremity pointed. *lli>0 a. Gyinnochronia plagiata. Gymnochroma plagiata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 220 (1913). Fore wing with vein 9 shortly stalked with 6, 7. S • Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous; the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi more rufous and ringed with white. Fore wing
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 806 AECTIAD-E. 1148. Nadaria discipimcta. Larva. Piepers. Tijd. t. Ent. xlvii. p. 164. Thickly clothed with hair. Cocoon a circular palisade of hair with the green pupa marked with hrown in the centre, its head angulate and extremity pointed. *lli>0 a. Gyinnochronia plagiata. Gymnochroma plagiata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 220 (1913). Fore wing with vein 9 shortly stalked with 6, 7. S • Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with rufous; the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi more rufous and ringed with white. Fore wing white faintly tinged with rufous; a sinuous brownish subbasal line from costa to inner margin ; a fulvous yellow ante- medial patch with irregular edges from costa to median nervure. Fig. 268.— Gymnochroma plagiata, rf. •§. and'oblique brown line from it to inner margin ; a round dark red- brown spot with white annulus in middle of cell; a fulvous yellow hand with irregular outer edge from costa across end of cell to vein 2 with brown line from it to inner margin ; an oblique fulvous yellow patch from apical part of costa to discal fold beyond the cell, where it is almost joined by an irregularly triangular patch from middle of termen enclosing a slight white mark on termen at vein 4; a fulvous yellow patch from below vein 3 to above inner margin extending from just beyond the pust medial band to termen. Hind wing semihyaline white. llab. Bh. N. Guinea, Mambare R-, Biagi (Meefc), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 1G millim. Genus MELASTROTA. Type. Melastrota, Hmpsn. A. M. X. H. (7) xv. p. 439 (1905) nigrisquamatd. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect to just beyond frons ; antenna:- of male ciliated; hind tibiae with the -purs long-. Fore wing- rather short and broad; vein 2 from towards angle of cell, oblique; 3 from before angle; at; 6 from below upper ang-le ; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12, which has two veinlets between it and costa; male wi
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