. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. coiTnKVOi'—I'uunii 1^2? fuscous between them beyond it on costa; subtermiiitil lino defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled inwards below costa, outwards at veins 7, (5, 4, 3 and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; the termeii strongly suffused with brown on apical half and with terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, uniformly tinged with brown, the cilia white. JJ<(h. , California, cotype f $ in Coll. J. B. Smith. } 24 millim. Genus PRODICELLA, nov. Type, P. d
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. coiTnKVOi'—I'uunii 1^2? fuscous between them beyond it on costa; subtermiiitil lino defined by fuscous suffusion on inner side, angled inwards below costa, outwards at veins 7, (5, 4, 3 and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; the termeii strongly suffused with brown on apical half and with terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, uniformly tinged with brown, the cilia white. JJ<(h. , California, cotype f $ in Coll. J. B. Smith. } 24 millim. Genus PRODICELLA, nov. Type, P. darcna. (ally developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2iul joint reaching about to middle of froiis and nioderately fringed with liair in front, the 3r(l moderate; frons with large rounded prominence with corneous sliovel-shaped plate at middle and triangular plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male almost simple; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the protiiorax without erest, the melathorax with I'ounded decumbent crest; tibiaj slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, tlio termen evenl/ curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and T) from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 0 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 i'rom cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; b obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; ti, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one- tiiird length. 3844. Prodicella darena. Tkalpoehares dar en a, Druce, IJiol. , Ilet. ii. p. 496, pi. 9.'). f. 21 (1«98). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous white; tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown ; the medial area, except beyond the reniform, and the terminal area darker red- brown ; some dark red-brown on base of costa with a pale striga on it representing the subbasal line ; antemedial lino black-brown with pale suffusion b
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