. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HYPOSCOTA.—CACTPAEIS. 461 6805. Hyposcota Iseta. Ballatha lata, Wit. xxxiv. 1215 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 127; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 284. Tortrix fimbriana, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 101 (1869). S. Head and thorax purple-brown mixed with olive-grey; palpi grey, yellow behind ; antennae brown, orange at base and with orange bar between them ; tegulse with metallic blue-black spots defined by orange ; metathorax with the crest blackish ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi yellow in front, the latter ringed wit
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HYPOSCOTA.—CACTPAEIS. 461 6805. Hyposcota Iseta. Ballatha lata, Wit. xxxiv. 1215 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 127; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 284. Tortrix fimbriana, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 101 (1869). S. Head and thorax purple-brown mixed with olive-grey; palpi grey, yellow behind ; antennae brown, orange at base and with orange bar between them ; tegulse with metallic blue-black spots defined by orange ; metathorax with the crest blackish ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi yellow in front, the latter ringed with white, the fore tibiae with greenish grey band ; abdomen orange, the extremity black. Fore wing pale purple-red mixed with grey-white, the apical area blue-grey suffused with yellow ; small blackish spots at middle of cell and on discocellulars ; antemedial line fuscous, oblique, and hardly traceable from costa to cell, more. Fig. 167.—Hyposcota IcBta, c?. t- distinct, inwardly oblique and defined on inner side by whitish below the cell; postmedial line very indistinct fuscous and oblique from costa to vein 5, more distinct, inwardly oblique and defined on outer side by whitish followed by a fuscous shade from vein 3 to inner margin ; cilia blue-grey at base, yellow at tips to vein 2, then white. Hind wing golden yellow, the cilia black at the produced part of termen between veins 4 and 2. Underside of fore wing black, the costal area yellow tinged with fuscous, the apical area yellow, slight yellow streaks in terminal part of submedian fold and on vein 1 ; hind wing with the patch of androconia black. 5 . Hind wing wholly golden yellow. Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 (5', 2 5 type ; Burma, Moulmein (CZerZ:), 1 § . Exp. 24 millim. Genus CACYPAEIS. Type. Cacyparis, Wlk. xxvi. 1572 (1862) insolitata. Bailatha, Wlk. xxxiv. 1214 (1865) insolitata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd about twice len
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