. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. H^.MAPHLEBIA. 203 Genus H^MAPHLEBIA, nov. Tj']3e, H. atripalpis. Proboscis lully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, the 2Hrl joint moderately Iringed witL scales in fronl, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and withont crests; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen without o-ests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 6 i'roni angle ; 6 from up
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. H^.MAPHLEBIA. 203 Genus H^MAPHLEBIA, nov. Tj']3e, H. atripalpis. Proboscis lully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, the 2Hrl joint moderately Iringed witL scales in fronl, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and withont crests; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen without o-ests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 6 i'roni angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, \), 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 elalked; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of dis- cocelliilars ; (3,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5314. Hsemaphlebia atripalpis, n. sp. (5". Head and thorax white faintly tinged with brown and irrorated with black ; palpi black, pectus and legs brown ; abdomen brown, the base white irrorated with black, the anal tut't whitish with two black streaks. Foie wing white tinged with brown and irrorated with black especially on the veins of medial area, the veins of terminal area with slight red streaks ; a slight waved black subbasal line from eosta to vein 1; a waved black antemedial line; a small black discoidal lunule with diffused bar above it from costa and a diffused blackish patch on middle of inner margin ; postmedial line black, oblique from eosta to vein 6, then minutely dentate, defined by white on outer side with diffused fuscous beyond. Fig. 45.—HoimapMchia atripalpns, (S. |. it interriipted by an oblique whitish streak above middle ; sub- terminal line rather diffused, blackish, waved, angled inwards at discal fold and with black spots beyond it below veins 4 and 2 ; a lunulate black terminal line; cilia white intersected with black and with black patches below veins 4 and 2. Hind wing whitish suffused and striated with fuscous brown, the basal
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