. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PARACHALCIOPE. 35 Genus PARACHALCIOPE, nov. Type, P. eudidicola. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long' and acuminate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male with bristles and cilia; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and wilhout crests; femora of male and the fore tibiaj fringed with long hair; the fore and hind tibise not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests, long and slender in male. Fore wing witli
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PARACHALCIOPE. 35 Genus PARACHALCIOPE, nov. Type, P. eudidicola. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long' and acuminate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male with bristles and cilia; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and wilhout crests; femora of male and the fore tibiaj fringed with long hair; the fore and hind tibise not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests, long and slender in male. Fore wing witli the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins '6 and 5 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 the cell about one-third length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Hind tibise of male fiinged with long hair. A. Fore wing dark reddish brown except the costal area eucUdkola. B. Eore wing grey-brown with black ante- and postmedial patches. a. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch triangular and separate from the antemedial patch which extends to beyond middle above inner margin deltifera. b. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch rounded below and confluent above with the antemedial patch which does not extend to middle binaria. G. Fore wing brownish ochreous, with elongate black patch from near base to beyond middle longiplaga. 7799. Parachalciope eudidicola. Foditia eudidicola, 1438 (1858); HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 144, pi. iii. f. 11. Mecodina furcifera, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 363 (1902).. Fig. 8.—Parachalciope eudidicola, (J. t- Head and tegulse reddish brown; thorax and abdomen grey- brown. Fore wing black-brown with a reddish tinge, the costal d2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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