. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ABACEKA.—, 329 ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to beyond middle grey with a silvery blue gloss ; the medial area black-brown extending into the cell, where its upper edge is excised with a small white lunule in it and its outer extremity produced upwards as a point to subcostal nervure, edged on inner side by the line black antemedial line which is slightly defined on inner side by white and very slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique, e
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ABACEKA.—, 329 ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing with the basal area and costal area to beyond middle grey with a silvery blue gloss ; the medial area black-brown extending into the cell, where its upper edge is excised with a small white lunule in it and its outer extremity produced upwards as a point to subcostal nervure, edged on inner side by the line black antemedial line which is slightly defined on inner side by white and very slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique, edged on outer side by the fine black postmedial line which is slightly defined on outer side by white, excurved towards costa, incurved at lower angle of cell, then erect, some slight white points beyond it on costa ; terminal area yellowish brown with fuscous and whitish suffusion before the hardly traceable subterminal line which is obliquely excurved below costa ; a black terminal line ; cilia blackish. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the underside leaden grey, the costal area tinged with brown, a fine black terminal line except towards tornus. Hah. Be. Gtjiana, Potaro R. (Kaye), 1 $ ; Brazil, Amazons (Bates), type f d" in Coll. Rothschild. Kvj). 18 millim. Genus MICROPH^A, nov. Type, M. nyctichroa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd minute ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male veith bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiee moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 10 anasto- mosing with 11. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars; (5, 7 from upper
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