. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 440 FOCTUIB^. 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 the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle. *8262. Chrysoptera sica. Fhisia sica. Grosser, Bevl. Ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 77 (1890); John, Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xxxix. p. 251, pi. xiv. t. '22 ;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 440 FOCTUIB^. 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 the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle. *8262. Chrysoptera sica. Fhisia sica. Grosser, Bevl. Ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 77 (1890); John, Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xxxix. p. 251, pi. xiv. t. '22 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and irrorated with a •few dark brown scales ; tegulse with blackish line at middle, the tij)s of tegulae, patagia, and metathoracic crest red-brown and white ; legs red-brown and yellowish; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown, the crests yellow tipped with red-brown and white. Fore mng with the ground-colour of the basal area and inner area to the cell. Fig. \li). —Chrysoptera sica, ^, and vein 2 pale purplish pink, the rest of wing metallic golden, the whole Aving suffused in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black, the veins streaked with red-brown; antemedial line red- brown, excurved below costa, incuiwed in cell, then excurved; orbicular with whitish annulus defined at sides by brown, narrow, oblique; a silvery-white oblique elongate V-shaped stigma below the cell, its extremity rather bent outwards ; reniform with whitish annulus defined by brown, constricted at middle; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa and incmwed at discal fold, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 4 and exciirved below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line red-brown, slightly dentate, arising at vein 7, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and excurved at middle; a dark brown terminal line. Hind wing. Please note that
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