. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. FALA. LKrroCNEMIS, 221 without crests. wing with the costa slifihlly ex--ii!ecl beyond midclle. the apex rectajigular. the termon evenly onrve(1 and not creniilute ; veins '.i and fi 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 8, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; y anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3836. Fala ptychophora. Fafa ptychophora. Grote, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. FALA. LKrroCNEMIS, 221 without crests. wing with the costa slifihlly ex--ii!ecl beyond midclle. the apex rectajigular. the termon evenly onrve(1 and not creniilute ; veins '.i and fi 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 8, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; y anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3836. Fala ptychophora. Fafa ptychophora. Grote, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phil. 187n. p. 420 ; id. 111. E.; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. -l^i. 6 . Head and thorax white mixed with black-hrown, the head and tegulte tinged with ochreous, the tegulae and thoracic crests tipped with blackish ; abdomen pale ochreous, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with oelireous, especially in discal and submedian folds and on terminal area, and with some dark brown irroration from cell to postmedial line, between veins 5 and 2; subbasal line represented. Fig. 46.—FaJa pfi/ch>]), (^. \. bv a slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish, oblique from costa to median nerviire, then dentate; orbicular and reiiiform white defined by blackish, the former round, the latter narrow, oblique, slightly angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa and the area between it and subtermirial line filled in by white lunules from vein 5 to inner margin : subterminal line black defined on outer side by an oblique white bar from costa, then dentate ; a terminal series of black striae interrupted by white points at extremity of veins and base of cilia whicli are blackish. Hind Aving ochreous irrorated with brown ; traces of a discoidal lunulo and curved postmedial line; cilia fuscous with a whitish
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