. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 280 NOCTITIDiE Genus CEA. Type. Cea, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 78 (1883) immacula. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below; frons with rounded pro- minence bare of scales and with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennaB of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 280 NOCTITIDiE Genus CEA. Type. Cea, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 78 (1883) immacula. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below; frons with rounded pro- minence bare of scales and with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennaB of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute ; the termen evenly curved and hardly 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 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from just below middle of ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins and dark streaks in the interspaces of terminal area. a. Fore wing with black points in and beyond lower angle of cell; hind wing suffused with brown cirphidia. b. Fore wing without black points in and beyond lower angle of cell; hind wing ochreous white leucamdia. E. Fore wing nearly uniform pale yellow iynmacula. 4677. Cea cirphidia, n. sp. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 13.) 5 . Head and thorax pale rufous; pectus and legs whitish tiuged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with black. Fore wing pale rufous spai'^ely irrorated with black, the veins with slight pale streaks ; a black point in lower angle of cell and two just beyond the angle and one beyond upper angle. Hind wing ochreous white sufi'used with reddish brown especially on terminal area, the veins of terminal area with slight pale streaks; cilia yellowish white ; the underside white irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with rufous. Hab. , Ca
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