. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. aohatodes. 31 antennre of male ciliated and with vidge of scales on base of shaft; thorax clotlied with scales and hair mixed and with broad dorsal ridge of long scales; tibiffi moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of large crests, lateral tuits of liair on terminal segments and large spreading anal tult. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly creniilate veins ',} and fj from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from c
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. aohatodes. 31 antennre of male ciliated and with vidge of scales on base of shaft; thorax clotlied with scales and hair mixed and with broad dorsal ridge of long scales; tibiffi moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of large crests, lateral tuits of liair on terminal segments and large spreading anal tult. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly creniilate veins ',} and fj from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of dii^cocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown : sees.* B. Hind wing dark brown Juance. 4326. Achatodes zesB. Giwtyva ::cs, Harr. Ins. inj. to Veg. 1st ed. p. 319 (1841); id. Flint ed. p.'439, pi. 7. f. 9; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 179. Avhitodes sandix, Giien. Noct. i. p. 132, pi. 6. f. 4 (1852). Head and thorax fiery red mixed with pale yellow ; palpi and sides of frons dark brown ; tegulte with brown patches at sides ; patagia with brown upper edges ; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with wliite ; abdomen dorsally fiery red, ventrally dark brown. Fore wing with the costal half grey-brown suftused with fiery red at base, in end of cell and at apex, the inner half grey with some red suflPusion at base, middle and termen, the veins with dark streaks ; subbasal line indistinct, double, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, Avith black point on its inner edge at vein 1, nearly erect; claviform small, defined by brown ; orbicular small, narrow, oblique, with brown centre and grey annulus ; reniform grey, its centre defined by brown, rather oblique; an indistinct oblique waved red line. Fig. 7.—Achatodes ze<B, t^. from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; pos
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