. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 2 :. sublateral black points on terminal segments. Fore wing red- brown ; the basal inner area orange with three black points below the cell; the medial area dull orange from cell to inner margin, crossed by three waved brown lines; a quadrate hyaline patch in end of cell with some black points on it; a patch in and beyond end of cell marbled with black and grey, extending above vein 6 half way. Fig. 1.—Gvnotrephesfriga, cf. -J. to termen; a large hyaline patch beyond the cell between veins (5 and 3 irrorated with


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 2 :. sublateral black points on terminal segments. Fore wing red- brown ; the basal inner area orange with three black points below the cell; the medial area dull orange from cell to inner margin, crossed by three waved brown lines; a quadrate hyaline patch in end of cell with some black points on it; a patch in and beyond end of cell marbled with black and grey, extending above vein 6 half way. Fig. 1.—Gvnotrephesfriga, cf. -J. to termen; a large hyaline patch beyond the cell between veins (5 and 3 irrorated with black points and at extremity extending to just below vein 3; a slight oblique postmedial line from below costa to vein 5; a large hyaline apical patch from just below costa to vein 5 striated with rufous and a similar small bifid patch below vein 5; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia white intersected with rufous opposite the hyaline patches. Hind wing white, the inner half, veins, and cilia brownish yellow. Ihili. Pebtj, Carabaya (Ockenden), type t in Coll. Joicey, S. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 J. Exjp. 42 millim. *1194 h. Thyrarctia semivitrea. (Plate XLV. fig. 2.) Thyrarctia semivitrea, Joicey, A. M. N. H. (8) xviii. p. 53, pi. xiv. f. 1 (1916). d . Head and thorax rufous, the tegulae with short white stripes at middle not reaching base or tips ; lower part of irons and basal joint of anteniue in front white; palpi black-brown, the 1st joint with sonic white in front at extremity, the 2nd white in front; fore coxa' orange, the femora black-brown, the tibiae rufous and the tarsi white ; mid and hind legs white, the femora with red-brown marks at extremity and the basal half of tibiae red-brown ; abdomen rufous, tlir lib and 5th segments and the sides of 2nd and 3rd orange, the ventral surface white, large lateral black spots except on terminal segments and small sublateral spots on medial segments. Fore wing purplish rufous, the apical half white from middle of costa to terme


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