. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DARANTASIA-. 273 570. Darantasia cuneiplena. Damntasia oimeiplena, Wlk. Joura. Lian. Soc, Zool. iii. p. 186 (1859); Swiali. Oat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 99, pi. iii. f. 17; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 299. Ammatko hieroglyphka, Butl. Trans. But. Soc. 1877, p. 343; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 309. tS . Black; palpi, frons, tegulse, patagia, a patch on metathorax, and greater part of legs orange ; abdomen with orange bands on dorsum at base and towards extremit}', and the ventral surface orange. Fore wing with short orange streaks fr
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DARANTASIA-. 273 570. Darantasia cuneiplena. Damntasia oimeiplena, Wlk. Joura. Lian. Soc, Zool. iii. p. 186 (1859); Swiali. Oat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 99, pi. iii. f. 17; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 299. Ammatko hieroglyphka, Butl. Trans. But. Soc. 1877, p. 343; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 309. tS . Black; palpi, frons, tegulse, patagia, a patch on metathorax, and greater part of legs orange ; abdomen with orange bands on dorsum at base and towards extremit}', and the ventral surface orange. Fore wing with short orange streaks from base below costa, in cell, and on vein 1, the first slight; a triangular spot below middle of costa ; a wedge-shaped streak from below middle of cell to near term en, its upper edge excised towards extremity, which runs up to a point on vein 4; a short wedge-shaped streak above middle of inner margin ; a tri- angular patch below costa beyond p- -|g2 middle ; a subterminal band Darantasia cimeiplena, S â f between veins 7 and 2 ending in a point below. Hind wing with orange spot on middle of costa ; an elongate spot from below middle of cell to well beyond lower angle and a subterminal spot towards tornus. $ , Hind wing without the orange spot towards tornus. Hah. Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 5 , type hieroglypJiica ; Pttlo 'Lkv's: {Boherty), 2 c?, 1 $ ; Sumatra. Exj). 22 millim. Typef in Mus. Oxon. *571. Darantasia semiclusa. , Co^itha semichisa, Wlk. xxxi. 234 (1864); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 98, pi. iii. f. 8; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 333. C^me ochro'pyga, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 139. f. Vb (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 300. Black; head orange, a spot on frons, and antennae black; tegulse and patagia edged with orange; legs orange, fore and mid tibiae and tarsi striped with black ; abdomen with the last four segments orange with black segmental lines. Fore wing with a purplish tinge ; an orange fascia just below costa to near middle and short streaks on median nervure and in
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