. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 500 ARCTIAD^. Sect. II. {Bhodogadria). Head of male without tuft of hair; fore wing with the costa not dilated at base. A. Hind wing of male with the tornus produced to a large pointed lobe, the inner area clothed with long flocculent hair on underside. 2110. Rhodogastria arthns-bertrandi. lAtho&ia arthus-bertrand, Guer. Voy. Coquille, Atlas Lep. pi. 19. f. 5 (1830); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. Chelonia saucia, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 214 (1832). Creaton
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 500 ARCTIAD^. Sect. II. {Bhodogadria). Head of male without tuft of hair; fore wing with the costa not dilated at base. A. Hind wing of male with the tornus produced to a large pointed lobe, the inner area clothed with long flocculent hair on underside. 2110. Rhodogastria arthns-bertrandi. lAtho&ia arthus-bertrand, Guer. Voy. Coquille, Atlas Lep. pi. 19. f. 5 (1830); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 195. Chelonia saucia, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 214 (1832). Creatonotus caudipennis, Wlk. xxxi. i284 (1864). Amerila piepersi, Snell. Tijd. Ent. xxii. p. 102, pi. 8. f. 4 (1879).. Fig. 223.—Bhodogastria arthus-hertrandi, (S. \. Head and thorax brownish grey; palpi crimson with black spots; antennae black, the basal joint crimson and black; frons and vertex of head with black spots; tegulae, shoulders, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with paired black spots, the tegulae edged with crimson ; legs crimson, streaked with fuscous and grey- brown ; abdomen yellowish white, the last two segments tinged with crimson, a lateral series of black spots. Fore wing grey- brown ; two black spots at base; the end of cell and area just below it semihyaline; a fuscous discoidal band; hyaline patches in the interspaces between veins 7 and 3, below vein 5 extending to near termen ; the apical area rather darker brown. Hind wing semihyaline white: an apical brown patch ; the hair on inner area of male ochreous. Hah. Celebes ; Aru (Wallace), 1 <S, type t d $ caudijpennis in Mus. Oxon.; N. Guinea. Exp. 54 millim. B. Hind wing of male with the tornus slightly produced. a. Hind wing of male with fold and fringe of hair on inner area on upperside. a}. Fore wing white rubripes. h^. Fore wing brown, with whitish patch beyond the cell. a/-. Abdomen orange hrunnea. b"^. Abdomen pale, pink at base and extremity roseiharba. c^. Abdomen pink except at base lute
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