. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PA ra:g —Ji i:T,icfi LE. 379 Genus PAR^ffiGLE, iiov. Type, P. ochracea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi ohlicpiely upturned, tlie 2Md joint reaching about to middle of frons and ratlicr broadly fringed wiLh scales in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect; frons with long i) corneous process connected by a keel with the plate below it which is produced to three points in front and two lateral jjoints below; eyes large, round; antenntc of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and crests; ti
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PA ra:g —Ji i:T,icfi LE. 379 Genus PAR^ffiGLE, iiov. Type, P. ochracea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi ohlicpiely upturned, tlie 2Md joint reaching about to middle of frons and ratlicr broadly fringed wiLh scales in front, the 3rd moderate, porrect; frons with long i) corneous process connected by a keel with the plate below it which is produced to three points in front and two lateral jjoints below; eyes large, round; antenntc of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and crests; tibias smoothly scaled, the fore tibiic wilh small claws on inner and outer sides; al)domen without crests. Pore wing with the apex rounded, the termen rather obliquely curved and not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upiier angle ; 9 from 19 anastomosing witii 8 to form theareole; II from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 stalked in male, from cell in female ; h obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing witli the cell to one tiiird. 4832. Parsep^le ochracea. Meliipoiiid ochnicea, Ersch. Fedtsch. Ilcis. p. ;, i)l. 3. f. 0*2 (1874); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. Melojionia subuchracea. Stand. Iris, iv. p. 324 (1891). lload and thorax yellow : palpi above and antennte tinged with rufous; abdomen yellow donsfilly tinged with ocliroous. Fore winp; yellow ; the costal edge tinged with rufous ; a rather narrow rufous jiostmedial band from costa towards apex, oblique below vein 7 ; cilia rufous. Hind wing yellowish white ; a rather indis- tinct and postmedial lino, excurved below costn, then oblique ; the termen tinged with rufous from apex to vein 4;. Fig. \n.—l'urm(jlc ochracea, c?. r. a fine brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing tinged with red-brown except the margins; hind wing uniform yellowish white. Ab. 1. sttf'ochracea. Smaller; fore wing with the markings slight or almost obso
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