. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PAKASICCIA. J2'.] banded with brown. Fore wing brownish white; the basal area suffused with dark brown to just before the dentate brown ante- medial line; a black point in middle of cell and lunulate Mack diseoidal spot; a medial blackish spot on costa and oblique dentate brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin, the area beyond it suffused with brown to the postmedial line, which is oblique to vein 0, incurved at discal fold, and oblique and dentate. Fig. 239.—Parasiccia dentata, J. {. below vein 4; a subterminal
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PAKASICCIA. J2'.] banded with brown. Fore wing brownish white; the basal area suffused with dark brown to just before the dentate brown ante- medial line; a black point in middle of cell and lunulate Mack diseoidal spot; a medial blackish spot on costa and oblique dentate brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin, the area beyond it suffused with brown to the postmedial line, which is oblique to vein 0, incurved at discal fold, and oblique and dentate. Fig. 239.—Parasiccia dentata, J. {. below vein 4; a subterminal blackish patch on costa, irregular mark at middle with minute blackish streaks on the veins, and minute blackish streaks on veins 3, 2, and 1 ; a terminal series of black striae; cilia with brownish spot at middle. Hind wing brown. Sab. Formosa, Taiwan (Wileman), type f J in Coll. Wile- man. Exp. IS millim. 871 a. Parasiccia pnnctilinea. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 34.) Parasiccia punctilinea, Wileman, Entom. xliv. p. 174 (1911). Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with brown ; palpi Mack ; fore and mid legs suffused with black ; hind legs and ventral surface of abdomen pale grey. Fore wing grey suffused with brown, the basal area and a postmedial band darker; a black point at base and subbasal points below the costa and cell; two ante- medial points on costa and points in cell, on median nervure and vein 1 ; a black spot in middle of cell and small diseoidal lunule ; a dark line from middle of costa angled outwards beyond the angles of cell, then incurved and excurved above inner margin, with the darker postmedial band on its outer side, its outer edge defined by a series of short black dashes ; a subterminal series of somewhat dentate fuscous marks, angled outwards at veins 7, G, and 4; a terminal series of small blackish spots; cilia with a slight blackish line at middle from apex to vein 4. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous ; the underside paler with slight dark diseoidal
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