. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 2«4 NOCTUIDiE. white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area, a brown discoidal spot ; cilia j^ellowish white with ditfused brown line at middle; ttie underside yellowish white irrorated witli brown, a black discoidal spot, faint curved postmedial line with minute black streaks on the veins, and terminal series of lunules. Hab. ! Pkku, Oroya {Ochenden), 1 c?, 1 $ type, Carabaya, St. Domingo. ii>_^;». 30 millim. Genus CENTRARTHRA., nov. Type, C. furcivitta. Proboscis fully developecl; palpi obliquely
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 2«4 NOCTUIDiE. white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area, a brown discoidal spot ; cilia j^ellowish white with ditfused brown line at middle; ttie underside yellowish white irrorated witli brown, a black discoidal spot, faint curved postmedial line with minute black streaks on the veins, and terminal series of lunules. Hab. ! Pkku, Oroya {Ochenden), 1 c?, 1 $ type, Carabaya, St. Domingo. ii>_^;». 30 millim. Genus CENTRARTHRA., nov. Type, C. furcivitta. Proboscis fully developecl; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in i'ront, the 3rd i-ather long, porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female ciliated ; thorax roughly clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; fore tibisewith curved claw at extremity on inner side, the mid and hind tibise moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and crenulate; 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; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3896. Centrartlira furcivitta, n. sp. 5 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-bi'own and some fuscous; abdomen ochreous tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with dark brown and black ; a black streak on basal half of median ncr%'ure obscurely forking in base of submedian fold; a faint black streak on ex- tremity of median nervure ; subbasal and antemedial lines repre- sented by a few black scales below costa ; claviform and orbicular. Fig. 80.— Centrarihra furcivitta, $. absent; reniforra represented by a very slight pale lunule obscurely defined by bl
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