. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 392 NOCTUID^. Genus SELENISTIS, nov. Type, S. annulella. Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, sbort, moderately fringed with scales below; frons with large truncate prominence with raised edges, a rounded truncate process in centre and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae in both sexes bipectinate with very short branches, the apex serrate; thorax clothed entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the inetathorax with spreading crest; tibiis smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing wit
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 392 NOCTUID^. Genus SELENISTIS, nov. Type, S. annulella. Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, sbort, moderately fringed with scales below; frons with large truncate prominence with raised edges, a rounded truncate process in centre and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae in both sexes bipectinate with very short branches, the apex serrate; thorax clothed entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the inetathorax with spreading crest; tibiis smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with tlie apes rounded, the terinen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; 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 8, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell nearly to middle. 4855. Selenistis annulella. Tarache annulella, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 383 (1902). Head and thorax ochreoua white, the pro- and metathorax with some black scales ; palpi, lower part of irons, and antennse rufous ; pectus tinged with rufous ; legs rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous and with slight dark segmental lines. Fore wing ochreous white suffused in parts with rufous especiall}' on costa, below end of cell, before postmedial line and on termen ; antemedial line represented bj" a diffused rufous mark on inner margin; orbicular only defined by an oblique black striga on its outer edge. Fig. 183.—Selenistis annulella, ^. \. with an oblique red-brown mark beyond it angled outwards aboTe before the reniforra, which is defined by black, open above and expanding into a rounded patch below; some brown points on post- medial part of co&ta; postmedial line arising from costa towards apex, excurved below costa, then represented by an oblique series of dark points with traces of a waved line
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