. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. (J88 N0CTUII).12. terminal series of minute black luniiles defined on inner side 1)t slight white liuiules ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing whitish tinged with pale rufous especially on inner area; a slight discoidal point, ctirved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band ; the underside with small discoidal spot, curved diffused postmedial line, and fine terminal line. Hah. Spain, Andalusia, 1 S; Syria. Exp. 28 millim. Genus , nov. T_vpe, A. attenuata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slen
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. (J88 N0CTUII).12. terminal series of minute black luniiles defined on inner side 1)t slight white liuiules ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing whitish tinged with pale rufous especially on inner area; a slight discoidal point, ctirved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band ; the underside with small discoidal spot, curved diffused postmedial line, and fine terminal line. Hah. Spain, Andalusia, 1 S; Syria. Exp. 28 millim. Genus , nov. T_vpe, A. attenuata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, romiderl ; antennse of male minutely ciliated ; build slender ; head and thorax roughly clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with loose spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests, the female with long exserted ovipositor. Fore wing narrow and elongate, the fipex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and •^ from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell attenuata. B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell indecora. 3586. Arsea attenuata, n. sp. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown; palpi black except in front, frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi black with pale rings; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with black; subbasal line black, somewhat dentate, from costa to submedian fold ; a black streak below the cell confluent with the lower edge of claviform which is narrow and acuminate ; ante- medial line st
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