. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 138 ARCTIAD^. Ab. 2. directa. Fore wiug with the lower black patch bar- shaped ; thorax grey or with black stripe. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked or from cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 6 and 7 from a point at end of areole or shortly stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12. Eab. N. China (Fortune), 2 $, type. Rvj). 39-42 millim. Type t directa in Coll. Leech. C-. (Zadadra). Hind wing of male with large patch of anclroconia below medial part of costa ; fore wing with the inner margi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 138 ARCTIAD^. Ab. 2. directa. Fore wiug with the lower black patch bar- shaped ; thorax grey or with black stripe. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked or from cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 6 and 7 from a point at end of areole or shortly stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12. Eab. N. China (Fortune), 2 $, type. Rvj). 39-42 millim. Type t directa in Coll. Leech. C-. (Zadadra). Hind wing of male with large patch of anclroconia below medial part of costa ; fore wing with the inner margin highly arched and fringed with hair towards base. 268. Ilema distorta. Lithosia distorta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 572; id. P. Z. S. 1878, pi. ii, f. 15; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 77; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 319. (S . Head blackish, the vertex dull orange ; thorax and abdomen the ventral surface and anal tuft orange. Fore wing fuscous grey ; the costal area ochre- ous suffused with fulvous, with a round black spot beyond middle, with an obscure obliquely - curved fuscous band from it to inner margin ; the inner margin narrowly ochreous. Hind wing pale yellow, tinged with fuscous towards Fig. 86.—Ilema distmia, (^. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) apex ; the patch of androconia fuscous. 5 . Fore wing with the interspaces of outer half obscurely streaked with ochreous ; the costal fascia yellowish white and the spot more triangular. Ab. 1. (S . Fore wing without the black spot on costa.—Nepal, Ab. 2. 2 . Fore wing without the ochreous streaks in inter- spaces.—Pulo Laut. Fore wing with vein 2 in male from well beyond middle of cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 6 and 7 from areole; 11 free, in male from near end of cell. Hah. Nepal (Hardivicke), 1 c? ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 1 6 ; Assam, Khasis, Moore Coll., 2 c5', 1 $ type, Naga Hills; Pulo Latjt (Doherty), 1 $ . Exp. 34-42 millim. d-. {Prahhasa). Hind wiug of male without secondary sexual characters. a^.
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