. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DASYPOITDJEA. Genus DASYPOUDJEA. Basypoudcea, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 213 (1883). 51 Type. lucens. Proboscis fnlly developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, and fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence; eyes large, rounded ; antenn£e of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with thick hair, the latter rather quadrately scaled and with slight metathoracic crests ; legs with long hair, the tibije spiued; the fore tibise rather short and broad, with long curved claw on inn
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DASYPOITDJEA. Genus DASYPOUDJEA. Basypoudcea, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 213 (1883). 51 Type. lucens. Proboscis fnlly developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, and fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence; eyes large, rounded ; antenn£e of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with thick hair, the latter rather quadrately scaled and with slight metathoracic crests ; legs with long hair, the tibije spiued; the fore tibise rather short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer; abdomen in the type species with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veius 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour crimson hicens. B. Fore wing with the ground-colour green meadi. 6b. Dasypoudaea lucens. Hcliothis hicens, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 69 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 286. Tamila luxuriosa, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 175 (1882). 5 . Head and thorax clothed with deep crimson and bluish-white hair; pectus with white and brownish hair; legs with white and pinkish hair; abdomen brown irrorated with yellowish-white, the dorsal crest deep crimson and bluish white, the ventral surface. Fig. 21.—DasyjMudcsa lucens, (^. \. white mixed with pink. Fore wing deep crimson suffused with bluish white, the veins streaked with white ; a dentate subbasal white line from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line dentate; an ill-defined crimson discoidal lunule; the postmedial line minutely dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; an irregularlj^ dentate subterminal whitish line angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and inwards in discal
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