. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 796 AECTIADiE. Genus RHABDATOMIS. Type. Rhabdatomis, Dyar, J. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 227 (1907) zaba. Froboscis fully developed ; palpi slender, porrect, extending as far as frons, which is smooth and rounded; antenna? of male with bristles and cilia, tibiae with the spurs rather short. Fore wing narrow, the costa arched, the termen obliquely curved; the discal fold strong; the cell long; vein 2 from well before angle of cell, slightly curved towards base ; 3 near angle ; 5 from above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 s
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 796 AECTIADiE. Genus RHABDATOMIS. Type. Rhabdatomis, Dyar, J. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 227 (1907) zaba. Froboscis fully developed ; palpi slender, porrect, extending as far as frons, which is smooth and rounded; antenna? of male with bristles and cilia, tibiae with the spurs rather short. Fore wing narrow, the costa arched, the termen obliquely curved; the discal fold strong; the cell long; vein 2 from well before angle of cell, slightly curved towards base ; 3 near angle ; 5 from above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9; 10, 11 from cell, 11 curved and approximated to 12. Hind wing with the cell long ; vein 2 from well before angle; 3, 4 strongly stalked; 5 present; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. In key differs from Eurasia in the fore wing having vein 2 from beyond middle of cell and vein 11 curved and approximated to 12. *1113e. Rhabdatomis zaba. Rhabdatomis zaba, Dyar, J. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 227 (1907). cf. Head yellow above, the palpi, frons, and antenna? greyish; thorax yellow tinged with pink ; abdomen yellowish. Fore wing grey, the costa, a fascia from base of median nervure to termen below apex, and the inner margin broadly yellowish ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing whitish, the inner area tinged with yellow, the costa and terminal area to vein 2 suffused with Fig. Rhabdatomis zaba, tf . \. Hub. Mexico, Orizaba (Schavs). Exp. 24 niillim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Nat. Mus. *1114a. Eurylomia similiiforma. (Plate XLI. fig. 23.) Eurylomia similiiforma, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 217 (1913). 6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; antennae black ; tibia? and tarsi black-brown ; abdomen Avith some fuscous at base, a black-brown lateral stripe, the anal tuft black-brown and the claspers fuscous above. Fore wing orange-yellow, the costal edge black-brown ; a terminal black-brown band tinged with grey
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