. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 138 NOCTTJlDiE. their inner sides, those on each side of vein 5 longer ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially towards termen : the cilia white with a brownish line at base ; the underside white, with the costal area tinged with brown. Hah. Chili, Coquimbo {J. J. Walker), 4 d", 2 $ type. Exp, 30 millim. Genus CLADOCEROTIS, uov. Type, C. 02)tabilis. Proboscis aborted, miuute ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons, Muged with long hair below ; t'rons with truncate con
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 138 NOCTTJlDiE. their inner sides, those on each side of vein 5 longer ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially towards termen : the cilia white with a brownish line at base ; the underside white, with the costal area tinged with brown. Hah. Chili, Coquimbo {J. J. Walker), 4 d", 2 $ type. Exp, 30 millim. Genus CLADOCEROTIS, uov. Type, C. 02)tabilis. Proboscis aborted, miuute ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons, Muged with long hair below ; t'rons with truncate conical prominence ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male bipectinate, with long branches to apex; head and thorax clothed with hair only ; fore tibias rather short and broad, spined at sides and with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; mid and hind tibiis spined. Fore wing with the apex quadrate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 243, Cladocerotis optabilis. HeliopJiobus oj^iaMlis, Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. ph 74. ff. 2,3(1832); Sclmff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 31-33; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 170, pi. 16. f. 2; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 176. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown; sides of paljji and frons blackish ; abdomen ochreous, tinged with brown in female. Fore wing ochreous, suffused with reddish-brown except below costa and on inner margin ; the veins defined by ochreous streaks ; the lines absent; claviform very elongate from base to beyond middle,.. Fig. 50. — Cladocerotis optabilis, ^ \. ochreous defined by black; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by black', the former elliptical, open above, Avith a short black streak from its inner side below subcostal nervure, the latter open above and angled inwards on median nervure; the
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