. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 450 6 . Head and thorax fuscous brown with a slight silvery gloss ; pectus, legs, and abdomen brown, the last with the anal tuft and ventral surface reddish ochreous. Fore wing creamy white, the base, costal area, and a subterminal band fuscous brown with a golden gloss, the band with its inner edge incurved at submedian fold; cilia fuscous brown. Hind wing ochreous whitish; the underside with the costal area tinged with fuscous brown, the fringe of hair on inner area fulvous. $ . Abdomen with the anal tuft brownis
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 450 6 . Head and thorax fuscous brown with a slight silvery gloss ; pectus, legs, and abdomen brown, the last with the anal tuft and ventral surface reddish ochreous. Fore wing creamy white, the base, costal area, and a subterminal band fuscous brown with a golden gloss, the band with its inner edge incurved at submedian fold; cilia fuscous brown. Hind wing ochreous whitish; the underside with the costal area tinged with fuscous brown, the fringe of hair on inner area fulvous. $ . Abdomen with the anal tuft brownish ochreous, whitish below; fore wing pure white, a broad brown antemedial band with a golden cuprous gloss from below costa to inner margin, a large round discoidal patch, and a broad curved subterminal band; hind wing and underside of both wings fuscous. Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. (Meek), type f d, 2 in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek) ; Goodenough I. (Meek), 2 ? . Exp. 22 millim. Genus PSEUD0SC0LIA, nov. Type, P. tenehrifera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender; antennas of male with bristles and cilia ; tibife with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with rough hair, with sublateral tufts of long hair at extremity, the claspers long and clothed with downturned hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen obliqiiely curved ; the subcostal and median nervures approximated to origin of vein 2 which arises from middle of cell and is downcurved at base ; 3 from angle of cell, downcurved at base ; 5 absent; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10 from angle of cell; 11 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with the basal part of costa lobed and fringed with hair, the apical part truncate ; vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident; 5 absent; the discocellulars very short; veins 6, 7 coincident; 8 from angle of cell. In key differs from Pseudilema in the fore wing having vein 6 from the cell.
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