. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 530 ;. Genus CHAMAITA. „ Type. ChainaHa, Wlk. Jonrn. Linn. Sop., Zool. tI. p. 121 (18fi2). frichopteroidea. Ilimop^i/cbe, Bull. A. M. K. H. (n) x. p. 220 (1882) /ncftopfcroi,h:s. Troboscis fully devplopcil : palpi short, porrect, clothpcl with Innfr hair; head, thorax, and abdomen clotlicd with rough hair ; antenna' ciliated, witli tlie basal joint extremely lone and clothed with lonfr hair; tibia; witli tiie ppurs moderate; wings S)>ar!*ely clothed with liair. Fore wing with tiie costa ftronjrly arched at bane and
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 530 ;. Genus CHAMAITA. „ Type. ChainaHa, Wlk. Jonrn. Linn. Sop., Zool. tI. p. 121 (18fi2). frichopteroidea. Ilimop^i/cbe, Bull. A. M. K. H. (n) x. p. 220 (1882) /ncftopfcroi,h:s. Troboscis fully devplopcil : palpi short, porrect, clothpcl with Innfr hair; head, thorax, and abdomen clotlicd with rough hair ; antenna' ciliated, witli tlie basal joint extremely lone and clothed with lonfr hair; tibia; witli tiie ppurs moderate; wings S)>ar!*ely clothed with liair. Fore wing with tiie costa ftronjrly arched at bane and fringed with liair, wliich is very long in male; vein 2 from middle of cell; ,3 from long before anirle; .") from far above angle; (i from beliiw upper angle, sinuous; 7, 8 stalked ; 1) absent; 11 free ; male with a strong fold in cell containing floceulent hair, the subcostal and median nerviires approximated. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell; 3 from long before angle; 5 from well above angle-; 6, 7 btalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 10 absent in both sexes. 1137. Chamaita trichopteroides. Cfiamaifa trichopteroidea, Wlk. J. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p, 122 (18G2) ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 3«5. Homopg)/che nudarioides, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) x. p. 226 (1882); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 305. Chamaita nem-opteroides, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 125 (1894). White ; wings diaphanous. Fore -wing with slight brown marks at base; an antemedial series of small brown spots, the spot on. Fig. 383. — Chamaita trichopteroides, (j". \. median nervure displaced outwards ; a medial series of brown marks oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then almost forming a waved line ; a curved subterminal scries of points and a terminal scries. Hab. Assam, Margharita (DoJiert;/), 1 $ . type t nenropteroides in Coll. Elwes : Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace)^ type t $ in Mus. Oxon. ; N. Guinea {Wallace)^ 1 c5' ; New Britain, 1 S, type nudarioides. Exp. 20 millim. Sr(
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