. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MfiXOPOrLCS.â MTCTEROPLrS. 231 outwards to inner margin ; subteriuinal line only defined by the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with series of rufous spots at-, tips. Hind wing yellowish white ; an indistinct sinuous post- medial line and pale rufous terminal band from apex to vein 1 ; a red-brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing with rufous suffusion in cell leaving a r
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MfiXOPOrLCS.â MTCTEROPLrS. 231 outwards to inner margin ; subteriuinal line only defined by the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with series of rufous spots at-, tips. Hind wing yellowish white ; an indistinct sinuous post- medial line and pale rufous terminal band from apex to vein 1 ; a red-brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing with rufous suffusion in cell leaving a round whitish orbicular stigma, the postmedial band rufous; hind wing faintly tinged with rufous. Hah. W. TuRKKSTAN, Turcomania, Achal Tekke, 1 S ⢠^'^â¢fj>. 36 millim. Genus MYCTEROPLUS. Ijpe. Mj/c/eroplm, Eiir. Schiuett. ii. p. L!4"J (1849; ... piuiiceago. Sh'phaniu, Giieu. Noct. ii. p. 172 (1852) puniceayo. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, liardly extending beyond the fi'oiis and fringed with long hair beLnv ; with round corneous prominence with raised edges and curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; autennre of male lanniiate and almost simple ; tliorax clothed wUh iiair and scales mixed, the pro-and tiietathorax with spreading crests; tibiie fringed with long hair, the fore tibia short and rather dilated, the 1st joint of tarsus with four curved claws on outer side longer at extremity ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with, be apex rounded, the teruieu evenly curved and iiardly crenulate; \eins 3 and "i from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with IS to form the areo'e ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoceliulurs ; 0, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 4600. Mycteropliis piiniceago. Xantlua â piinkeaqo, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 145 (1840); Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iv.'p. 2
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