. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 546 AGARlSTIDiE. white bands, slight lines between the somites and the spiracles white; the penultimate somite crimson on dorsum and sides; the terminal segment with one white band ; each somite with about eight white setae dilated and flattened at extremity. Food-plants, Lorantlius jpendulus and Casuarina. Genus CRURIA. ^ Type. Cruria, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 39 (1896) donovani. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long liair
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 546 AGARlSTIDiE. white bands, slight lines between the somites and the spiracles white; the penultimate somite crimson on dorsum and sides; the terminal segment with one white band ; each somite with about eight white setae dilated and flattened at extremity. Food-plants, Lorantlius jpendulus and Casuarina. Genus CRURIA. ^ Type. Cruria, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 39 (1896) donovani. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long liair in front, the 3rd naked, porrect; frons vrith truncate conical prominence •with raised rim at extremity ; antenna; nearly simple, slightly dilated towards apex; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen of male with protrusible lateral tufts of long hair from 2nd segment, the claspers large. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; b fro'ti just above angle; 6 from just below upper angle; 9, 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 fiom close to angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Abdomen with the bands pale yellowish donovani. B. Abdomen with the bands orange. a. Wings with the markings white Tieptioides. h. Wings with the markings pale yellow darviniensis. c. Wings wilh the markings orange-yellow platyxantha. 39. Cruria donovani. Agarista donovani, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 176 f 1832); Aussereur. Schmett. f. 28; Butl. 111. Het. B. M.' i. p. 9, pi. iv. f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 23. Elack ; palpi with pale yellow stripes at sides; frons at sides and gulae yellow ; back of head with yellow points ; tegulse edged with yellow, a band across mesothorax and patagia ; pectus, coxae, and. Fig. 241.— Cruria donovani, ^. \. femora with orange hair, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen with pale yellow bands, the anal tuft and claspers tipped with orange. Fore wing
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