. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 42\ :. dentate and oblique to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and waved to inner margin, some whitish and black strise beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, slight black marks beyond it above and below vein 4: a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing cupreous brown, deepening towards termen, on which there is a series of grey lunules on inner side of the fine Avaved black terminal line ; cilia grey and biown ; the underside grey irrorated
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 42\ :. dentate and oblique to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and waved to inner margin, some whitish and black strise beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, slight black marks beyond it above and below vein 4: a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing cupreous brown, deepening towards termen, on which there is a series of grey lunules on inner side of the fine Avaved black terminal line ; cilia grey and biown ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a diseoidal spot, crenulate postmedial line, and diffused subterminal line extending to termen towards apex. Bab. I'anama, Obispo (Salvm), 1 $ type. EiVj). 44 millim. Genus THALATHA. Thalatha, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 187 (1862) Type. si/tens. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of Irons and moderately fringed with bair iu front, the 3rd moderate ; frons with very small corneous prominence at middle with raised edges; eyes large, round ; antennae laminate or uniserrate; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; tibite moderately fringed with bair; abdomen with dorsal ci-est at base only. Fore wing with the apex typically rounded, the termen evenly curved and very slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 irom 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 discooellulars ; 6. 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennas of male with uniseriate serrations. 3616. Thalatha malagassica, n. sp. J . Head and thorax white slightly tinged with rufous ; palpi fulvous red with some black above ; antennae, tegulse, and patagia fulvous red ; pectus and legs fulvous red, the mid tibiae with black spot at middle and the tarsus with blac
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