. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 342 NOCTTJIDiE. GenusJANGITIAj ^ Angitia, Wlk. xt. 1719 (1858) directa. Proboscis fully developed ; p^pi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without ci-est, the mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibice fringed with long hair above ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex re
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 342 NOCTTJIDiE. GenusJANGITIAj ^ Angitia, Wlk. xt. 1719 (1858) directa. Proboscis fully developed ; p^pi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without ci-est, the mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibice fringed with long hair above ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen somewhat excised below apex and oblique towards tornus and hardly 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 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Hind wing of male on upper side with strong folds in discal and submedian folds from base to termen, the termen excurved at middle; veins 3, 4 stalked and 5 from lower angle of cell; the hind tibise with tuft of long hair from base above. 5524. Angitia tiresias. Droheta tiresias, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 310, pi. 29. f. 1 (1889). d . Head and thorax ochreous white ; antennse brown ; tegulae with black-brown line near base and band near tips; patagia edged above with brownish ; tarsi banded with brown; abdomen brownish white with brownish segmental lines. Fore wing dark red-brown mixed with grejdsh ochreous ; subbasal line represented by blackish spots below costa and cell; antemedial line black, rather maculate, somewhat sinuous and slightly oblique ; claviform,. Fig. 103.—Angitia tiresias, c?. \. orbicular, and reniform small with blackish centres and faint whitish annuli, the two former rather oblique elliptical; medial line represe
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