. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ]8 MOCTriD32. frons white with rufous bars above aud between antennae which are rufous ; tegulae with two slight dark lines at middle ; patagia with oblique white bands ; metathorax with whitish patch, some blackish scales at tips of patagia and metathorax ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen white with the dorsal crests rufous. Pore wing whitish tinged Avith rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the terminal area suffused with deep rufous and brown except towards costa; a very pale yellow-green fasci
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ]8 MOCTriD32. frons white with rufous bars above aud between antennae which are rufous ; tegulae with two slight dark lines at middle ; patagia with oblique white bands ; metathorax with whitish patch, some blackish scales at tips of patagia and metathorax ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen white with the dorsal crests rufous. Pore wing whitish tinged Avith rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the terminal area suffused with deep rufous and brown except towards costa; a very pale yellow-green fascia from subcostal nervure near base curving down to below vein 1,, then upwards to median nervure at middle where it is con- fluent with a wedge-shaped mark in cell, these markings defined by silvery white lines ; two similarly coloured conical patches. lig. 1.—Cosmodes eleffcins, J. }. beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 and 2 and 1, an oblique palo rufous fascia between veins 3 and 2 which are streaked with white, the area beyond the conical patches deep rufous to the silvery white postmedial line, which arises below costa, is angled outwards at vein 6 then oblique to vein 3 and between veins 2 and 1; a series of dark subtermiual striae excurved from costa to vein 6, then defined on inner side by silvery white striae angled out- wards at vein 3 aud ending at vein 2, with deep rufous before them between veins 6 and 4; a terminal series of dark stria3 with whitish before them above and below vein 3 ; cilia brown with a dark line through them, whitish at apex and below vein 3. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area broadly tinged Avith rufous from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white with a faint rufous tinge. 2 . Head and tegulae deep rufous ; thorax pale rufous ; fore wino- deep rufous, the costa dark with white points towards apex ; the interspace between veins 3 and 2 pale rufous at base, then o-reyish, the postmedial Avhite line obsolete except betAveen veins 7 a
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