. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 273 with small black spot in its angle, exciirved at middle and some- times with some small grey and black dentate marks on its inner side; a series of black or black and white points just before termeu; cilia rufous or with rufous line at base. Hind wing. Fig. .55.—Chahuafa major, cf. \. fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge; cilia ocbreous ; the under- side ochreous, tbe costal area tinged with reddish brown ; a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, New Fribourg, type t c? in Coll. Oberthi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 273 with small black spot in its angle, exciirved at middle and some- times with some small grey and black dentate marks on its inner side; a series of black or black and white points just before termeu; cilia rufous or with rufous line at base. Hind wing. Fig. .55.—Chahuafa major, cf. \. fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge; cilia ocbreous ; the under- side ochreous, tbe costal area tinged with reddish brown ; a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, New Fribourg, type t c? in Coll. Oberthiir, Rio Janeiro, Id", 2 2; Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 2 d, 1 5 > Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 1 c?, 1 $ . Exp. 50-56 millim, 1519. Chabuata rectilinea, n. sp. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 20.) 5 . Head and thorax reddish brown, some of the scales tipped with grey, the dorsal crest redder ; antennae with the shaft whitish towards base ; pectus rufous; the legs browner irrorated with white; abdomen pale brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing dull reddish brown thickly irrorated with brownish ochreous; a small black tuft at base ; no trace of sub- basal line; antemedial line fuscous defined by ochreous on inner side, slightly sinuous, oblique from costa to median nervure; orbicular and reniform finely defined by ochreous, the former round, the latter large, its upper part somewhat produced and its outer part filled in with ochreous ; traces of a medial shade oblique from costa to median nervure; postmedial line ochreous, bent inwards to costa, then oblique and slightly incurved towards inner margin, a series of black points beyond it on veins 6 to 1; the postmedial area slightly tinged with purplish; the subterminal line ochreous, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, above and below which there are black spots on its inner side, slightly angled inwards at discal fold, then excurved and with some black points on its inner side, the area beyond it thickly irrorat
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