. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. OSLARTA.— srHinA. 259 sufPased with rnfous, the palpi browner ; pectus and legs tinged with rufous. Fore wing yellow ; the basal costal area and the inner side of antemedial line suffused with rufous, the terminal area purplish pink; antemedial line rufous, angled outwards below costa, very oblique to submedian fold where it is acutely angled, then very oblique to inner margin near base and emitting a streak on its inner side on vein 1; stigmata absent; a faint rufous medial. F\g. 103.—Oslaria , cJ. }• line, obliq
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. OSLARTA.— srHinA. 259 sufPased with rnfous, the palpi browner ; pectus and legs tinged with rufous. Fore wing yellow ; the basal costal area and the inner side of antemedial line suffused with rufous, the terminal area purplish pink; antemedial line rufous, angled outwards below costa, very oblique to submedian fold where it is acutely angled, then very oblique to inner margin near base and emitting a streak on its inner side on vein 1; stigmata absent; a faint rufous medial. F\g. 103.—Oslaria , cJ. }• line, oblique from costa to beyond the cell where it is diffused, inwardly oblique below vein 4 ; postmedial line double, the inner line strong, purplish pink, the outer line indistinct, excurved below costa, at middle and above inner margin and slightly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, with traces of a curved subterminal line just beyond it; a fine purplish terminal line. Hind Aving yellow, the veins and terminal area tinged with piuk; an indistinct curved ])ostmedial line, more distinct on underside, Hab. Paraguat {Pouillon), type t d in Coll. Dogniu. Exjp. 26 millim. Genus SPHIDA. Tvpe. Sphida, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 170 (1878)... obliqua. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons, the 2iid joint fringed with lung liair below, the 3rd short; frons with rounded prominence hidden in a tult of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male bipectinate with long branches to apex, of female with shorter branches ; thorax clothed with hair only, the prothorax without erest, the metathorax with spreading crest cut off squarely behind; tibiae fringed with long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base, but without crests, the anal tuft of female very large and flocculent. Fore wing with the apex somewhat pro- duced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper
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