. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. EUCHARIA. ANAPHELA. 461 conjoined subdorsal crimson bands except on terminal segments. Fore wing blue-black, with yellowish or pure white band edged with fulvous yellow ; two points at base ; oblique subbaaal and antemedial bands, the latter sometimes not reaching inner margin or reduced to spots or strigse ; a medial band excurved at middle or reduced to spots and strigoB; a postmedial band excurved below costa and conjoined to the sinuous subterminal band by a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. EUCHARIA. ANAPHELA. 461 conjoined subdorsal crimson bands except on terminal segments. Fore wing blue-black, with yellowish or pure white band edged with fulvous yellow ; two points at base ; oblique subbaaal and antemedial bands, the latter sometimes not reaching inner margin or reduced to spots or strigse ; a medial band excurved at middle or reduced to spots and strigoB; a postmedial band excurved below costa and conjoined to the sinuous subterminal band by a fascia between veins 3, 4. Hind wing pale, tinged with crimson towards base and inner margin, or crimson, or scarlet; an oblique medial black band, often not reaching inner margin, sometimes absent; a discoidal lunule usually present; a subterminal blue-black spot from costa to vein 4; a spot from vein 3 to termen at vein 1; cilia black. Ab. 1. albicans. Fore wing with the black markings replaced by ochreous. Ab. 2. interrogationis. Fore wing with the black ground-colour very much reduced; a white discoidal spot on the black band. Ab. 3. sartlia. Fore wing entirely black. Ab. 4. Wings black: fore wing with portions of the subterminal band. Ab. 5. Fore wing with the basal half brownish on one side, on the other side the whole fore wing brownish; the hind wing yellowish with the apical half brownish. Hah. France; Belgium; Germany, Zeller Coll.; Livonia; Switz- erland, Frey Coll.; Greece, Merlin Coll.; Armenia ; Syria ; Altai. Exp. 44-64 millim. Genus ANAPHELA. Type. Anaphela, Wlk. iii. 751 (1855) stellata. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porxect, short, clothed with long hair ; antennae of male bipectinate, with very short branches ; eyes small; head and thorax clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,
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