. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DASYSTEEJTUK. HYPNOTTPE. 411 with fuscous brown. Fore wing blue-grej^ thickly irrorated and suffused with olive-fuscous ; faint traces of a subbasal Jine ; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line; orbicular and reniform pale, ver}- ill-defined, the former somewhat triangular, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a very indistinct medial shade ; postmedial line defined by pale grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then irregularly deiitate, incurved at discal. Fig. 138.—Basysternu
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DASYSTEEJTUK. HYPNOTTPE. 411 with fuscous brown. Fore wing blue-grej^ thickly irrorated and suffused with olive-fuscous ; faint traces of a subbasal Jine ; an indistinct double, waved, antemedial line; orbicular and reniform pale, ver}- ill-defined, the former somewhat triangular, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a very indistinct medial shade ; postmedial line defined by pale grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then irregularly deiitate, incurved at discal. Fig. 138.—Basysternum tibetana, (^. }. fold, oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold ; traces of a subterminal line slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia white ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, traces of a diff'used postmedial line. Hah. Tibet, Kuku Noor, 1 S, Amdo; W. Chixa, Ta-chien-lu, 8300' {Pratt), 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. Genus HYPNOTYPE, nov. Type, H. placens. Pi'oboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair in front; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; bead and tliorax clotlied aUnost entirely with scales, the tegalse produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiffi thickly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 iToni close to angle of cell; 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 discocellnlars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 2605, Hypnotype placens. Bij)hthei-aplacens, Wlk. xi. 708 (1857). $. Head and thorax white mixed with black scales; sides of palpi and frons mostly black; tegulse pale olive at base shading into rufous and with white tips; tibiae and tarsi banded black and white; abdomen dirt}' w
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