. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 720 of cell, the median nervure curved upwards at base ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked and the upper angle of cell much produced; hind •wing with the cell short, a small tuft of black scales in upper angle of cell and a swelling on underside. (? . Head, tegulae, and patagia white ; thorax brown ; palpi and antennae brown ; pectus and legs yellowish white tinged with brown ; abdomen grey , the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing white, the costal half tinged with pale rufous to the. Fig. 237.—Epitalara co
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 720 of cell, the median nervure curved upwards at base ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked and the upper angle of cell much produced; hind •wing with the cell short, a small tuft of black scales in upper angle of cell and a swelling on underside. (? . Head, tegulae, and patagia white ; thorax brown ; palpi and antennae brown ; pectus and legs yellowish white tinged with brown ; abdomen grey , the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing white, the costal half tinged with pale rufous to the. Fig. 237.—Epitalara commixta, cJ. r- pcstmedial line, before which there is a large patch of deeper rufous from below costa to inner margin ; slight brown subbasal and ante- medial bars from costa and diffused brown antemedial patches in cell and on inner area ; slight dark brown streaks beyond the cell in discal fold and below veins 3 and 2 ; the terminal area with diffused brown patches at discal fold and below vein 3. Hind wing white, the costa towards apex and inner area tinged with red-brown ; the underside with the terminal half of costal area tinged with red- brown. Hal. Costa Rica, La Florida (ScJiaus), type f 6 in Nat. Mus. Exp. 18 millim. Genus CTENANE. Type. Ctenane, Swinh. A. H. (7) xv. p. 497 (1905) labuana. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint thickly scaled; antennas of male bipectinate, the apical third ciliated; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing short and broad ; vein 2 strongly curved, from towards angle of cell; 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7 ; 11 from cell, oblique. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. In key differs from JEolosia in the palpi being porrect, the 2nd joint thickly scaled. 863 a. Ctenane labuana. Agrophila labuana, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1904, p.
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