. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MOXOCTMIA. DIASTEMA. 645 wing with the apex rather produced, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a small areole, 10 being approximated to 8 at its extremity and 7 from beyond the extremity; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 almost fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5980. Monocymia harmina. Acontia harmina, Schaus, Trans.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MOXOCTMIA. DIASTEMA. 645 wing with the apex rather produced, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a small areole, 10 being approximated to 8 at its extremity and 7 from beyond the extremity; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 almost fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5980. Monocymia harmina. Acontia harmina, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxs. p. 163 (1904). 5 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; pectus and legs ochreous white tinged with brown, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing greyish white suffused with olive-brown and rufous and slightly irrorated in parts with black ; antemedial line faintly double filled in with whitish, angled outwards on median nervure, then oblique ; postmedial line whitish with a slight brown line on. Fig. 178.—Monocymia harmina, 5. \, its inner edge, obliquely excurved to vein 4, then obliquely in- curved, the area beyond it more cupreous red ; traces of a rufous subterminal line ; a terminal series of rufous striae ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia whitish with a brown line near base ; the underside bluish white irrorated and suffused with fuscous, a blackish discoidal lunnle and indistinct diffused curved postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Castro Paraiia, type t in Nat. Mus.; Para- guay, Sa^pucay {Poster), 2 $ . Exjt. 26 millim. Genus DIASTEMA. Type. Diastema, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 317 (1852) tigris. Nipista, Wlk. xii. 799 (1857) tigris. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd jomt reaching about to vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate; frons witn small rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes
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