. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PROTnPKT'DYRA. 443 Gemis PROTOSEUDYRA, nov. Tjpe, P. ]jicfa. Proboscis I'uUy developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint nioderately fringed with hair below, the .3rd short; frons with rounded prominence with minute pointed corneous process at middle; eyes large, round ; antennfe of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair- like scales and without crests; fore tibia^ fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibi.'c moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with very large crest of curled me
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PROTnPKT'DYRA. 443 Gemis PROTOSEUDYRA, nov. Tjpe, P. ]jicfa. Proboscis I'uUy developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint nioderately fringed with hair below, the .3rd short; frons with rounded prominence with minute pointed corneous process at middle; eyes large, round ; antennfe of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair- like scales and without crests; fore tibia^ fringed with long hair, the mid and hind tibi.'c moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with very large crest of curled metallic scales at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternien evenly curved and not crenuhite; veins 3 and 5 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; f) obsolescent from iniddle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Hind wing whitish. a. Hind wing mostly suffused with red jyicta. b. Hind wing not suffused with red secu?ida. B. Hind wing yellow jiava. 4917. Protoseiidyra picta. Caradrina picta, Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 2tio (181)4); Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) XV. p. (j(]895). Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with whitish ; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen yellowish tinged with red-brown, the dorsal erest metallic black. Fore wing greyish almost entirely snffused with reddish brown, some whitish at base ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, oblique, somewhat sinuous ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a narrow dark brown lunule with some blood-red at lower angle of cell ; medial line indistinct, brown, faintly defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, than incurved ; post medial line double filled in with whitish,. Fig. 211 .—Protosemlym 2^ict(;, c? • 1 • indistinct, excurved from costa to vein 5 where it is crossed by a blood-red streak, then incurved, a blo
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