. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 110 :. A. Foro wing with orange pati-hes vagiviffa. B. Foro wing uniform black-brown auranticep^. 204. Chrysoscota vagivitta. Lithosia vagiviffa, Wlk. xxxv. 1884 (18()6): Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 127, pi. iii. f. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Hi-t. p. 332. Black-browii; head, tcguloe, and base of patagia orange ; palpi at tips, anteniiop, and patches ou frons and vertex of head black ; legs orange and fuscous ; abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface. Fig. 51.— Chrysoscota vagivitfa, (^. \. orange. Fore wing shot with
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 110 :. A. Foro wing with orange pati-hes vagiviffa. B. Foro wing uniform black-brown auranticep^. 204. Chrysoscota vagivitta. Lithosia vagiviffa, Wlk. xxxv. 1884 (18()6): Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 127, pi. iii. f. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Hi-t. p. 332. Black-browii; head, tcguloe, and base of patagia orange ; palpi at tips, anteniiop, and patches ou frons and vertex of head black ; legs orange and fuscous ; abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface. Fig. 51.— Chrysoscota vagivitfa, (^. \. orange. Fore wing shot with purple ; a wedge-shaped orange patch in and below cell from base to before middle; an elliptical spot in end of cell, with an oblique spot below its extremity; a short post- medial streak below costa. Hah. MrsoL {Wallace), 1 S type; Ceram ; New Guinea, Kapaur {Doherty), 3 d , 2 $ . Exp. 22 miUim. 205. Chrysoscota aiiranticeps, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 2.) Head orange ; palpi at tips and antennae brown ; tegulse and base of patagia orange; thorax and abdomen black-brown, with slight purple gloss, the greater pait of legs, extremity and ventral surface of abdomen orange. Fore wing black-brown with a purplish gloss ; an orange streak at base of costa. Hind wing black-brown. Ilah. X. GnxEA, Fergusson I., 1 c?, 1 5 {Meek)., type. Exp., 6 26, 2 30 millim. Genus NISHADA. Type. Nii-hadd, Muore, P. Z. S. 1878. p. 23 flabrifera. Petalopleura, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 458 impervia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, reaching just beyond frons, the 2nd joint fringed with hair below ; frons rounded ; antennae of male with long cilia and bristles, the shaft usually thickened with scales above towards base; tibioe with the spurs short; abdomen with slight lateral tufts on 1st segment, the 2nd segment almost bare of scales above in male. Fore wing rather short and broad, the costa highly arched ; vein 2 oblique from well before angle of cell; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 ; 6 fr
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