. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 172 NocTfiDj':, 3709. Scotocampa indigesta. Scotocampa indiyesta. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit, 1888, p. 36; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 212. S • Head and thorax -white mixed with fuscous; antennie white ; tarsi riiis^ed Avith black ; abdomen white irrorated with luscous. Eore wing white thickly irrorated with fuscous, the veins slightly streaked with white; a black streak below base of cell ; faint traces of an oblique waved antemedial line ; claviform a white streak detined by black at extremity and below and with faint black streak fro


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 172 NocTfiDj':, 3709. Scotocampa indigesta. Scotocampa indiyesta. Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit, 1888, p. 36; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 212. S • Head and thorax -white mixed with fuscous; antennie white ; tarsi riiis^ed Avith black ; abdomen white irrorated with luscous. Eore wing white thickly irrorated with fuscous, the veins slightly streaked with white; a black streak below base of cell ; faint traces of an oblique waved antemedial line ; claviform a white streak detined by black at extremity and below and with faint black streak from it to subterminal line ; orbicular and reniform absent: faint traces of a postmedial line bent outwards below costa and. Fig. 25.—Scotocampa indigesta, J. \. oblique below vein 4; subterminal line white, dentate, very indis- tinct from costa to vein 4, then more prominent, crossed by short black streaks in the interspaces, oblique below vein 3 and strongly angled inwards above and below vein 2; cilia fuscous intersected with white. Hind wing white; a small black discoidal lunule ; the terminal area irrorat;ed with fuscous forming obscure streaks in the interspaces ; cilia white. Underside of both wings white with black discoidal lunules, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous. Hab. AV. Turkestan, Issyk Kul; E. Tuekestan, Hi, Kungess, 1 (S . Exp. 38 millim. Genus LEIOMETOPON. Type. Leionietopon, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 37 simyrides. Proboscis aborted; palpi porreet, projecting about the length of head and clothed witli long hair, the 3rd joint short; f'rons with large rounded promi- nence; eyes large, round ; antenn;u laminate in both sexes ; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales, the prothorax without distinct crest, the inetathorax with large crest of rough scales; tibite clothed with rather long hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wiug with the apex rounded, the terraen evenly curved and not creoulafe ; veins 3


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