. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 616 arctiadj:. chalky white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except the inner and terminal areas. 2 • Fore wing without the brownish basal and antemedial patches. F'g. 1S5.—Exproctosia cretata, <f. -|. on costa or dark spot on termen ; a single small fuscous diseoidal spot; the underside without fuscous suffusion. Hah. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (SpurrelT), 1 6 ,1 2 type. Exp. c? 16, $ 20 millim. Page 296. Under insert :— 6 Type. Lexis, Wllgrn. Handl. (2) 5 (4), p. 41 (1865) rejecta. 626 a. Chi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 616 arctiadj:. chalky white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous except the inner and terminal areas. 2 • Fore wing without the brownish basal and antemedial patches. F'g. 1S5.—Exproctosia cretata, <f. -|. on costa or dark spot on termen ; a single small fuscous diseoidal spot; the underside without fuscous suffusion. Hah. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (SpurrelT), 1 6 ,1 2 type. Exp. c? 16, $ 20 millim. Page 296. Under insert :— 6 Type. Lexis, Wllgrn. Handl. (2) 5 (4), p. 41 (1865) rejecta. 626 a. ChionaBma metalenca, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 1.) Chionsema alborosea, ab. 2, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ii. p. 299. S • Head, thorax, and abdomen white; palpi brown at tips ; tegulse and patagia tipped with crimson; fore legs red-brown, the tibiae and tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing 'pure white ; the costal edge crimson towards base ; subbasal line crimson, expanding into small spots at costa and below the cell, ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line crimson, oblique, slightly excurved below costa; three minute triangularly-placed black diseoidal spots ; postmedial line crimson, oblique, almost straight; a curved rather diffused crimson line just before termen. Hind wing pure white. $ . Fore wing with single black diseoidal spot. Hah. Java, Sindanglaza (Cockayne), 1 . Exp. 22 millim. 629 a. Chionaema meyricci. Clerclcia meyricki, Roths. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 410 (1901). Fore wing of male with the costal fringe moderate, the lobe small, veins 6, 7, 8 stalked, 9 absent; female with veins 4, 5 stalked. J1. Head and thorax vermilion-red, palpi, antennas, tegulse, and outer edge of patagia black ; pectus and legs black ; abdomen black with orange-i'ed bands, incomplete dorsally on median segments. Fore wing vermilion-red with black fasciae on costa and inner. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for reada
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