. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 202 N0CTUIDJ3, points just before termen. Underside of fore wing strongly suffused with crimson except inner area ; hind wing slightly suffused with crimson. H(th. Japan, Kiushiu {Leech), 1 $, Tokio (Fenton), 1 (S type, Yokohama {Pryer), 3 S . Exp. 20 millim. Genus PEPERITA, nov. 1 ype, P. molt/lxlopasia. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaoiiiug about to vertex of bead, moderately fringed with hair in front and behind towards extremity, the 3rd joint minute, porrect; frons smooth; eyes large, round;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 202 N0CTUIDJ3, points just before termen. Underside of fore wing strongly suffused with crimson except inner area ; hind wing slightly suffused with crimson. H(th. Japan, Kiushiu {Leech), 1 $, Tokio (Fenton), 1 (S type, Yokohama {Pryer), 3 S . Exp. 20 millim. Genus PEPERITA, nov. 1 ype, P. molt/lxlopasia. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaoiiiug about to vertex of bead, moderately fringed with hair in front and behind towards extremity, the 3rd joint minute, porrect; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antetmte of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed with liair and s-'caies mixed, and without crests ; tibiie moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9,10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of disco- cellulars; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5313. Peperita molybdopasta. Erastroides molybdopasta. Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 69 (1908). Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with black scales tipped with silver ; palpi, fore legs, and tarsi blackish ; abdomen ochreous grey irrorated with black, the crests black tip[)ed with silver. Fore wing ochreous grey irrorated with black and a few silver scales, and with basal, antemedial and medial black patches on costa irrorated with silver ; an indistinct oblique antemedial black line ; a diffused black discoidal with some silver scales on it; a sinuous black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmcdial area with black streaks on the veins and white points with black between. Fig. 44.—Feperiia molybdojKista, cf. |. them on costa, traces of a whitish subterminal line excurved at middle ; a terminal series of blac
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