. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 380 NOCTUID^. Genus ATHAUMASTA nov. Thaumasta, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 79 (1871), non descr. nee Type. Gistl. Crust. 1848 expressa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus and tibias clothed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rectangular, the terme
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 380 NOCTUID^. Genus ATHAUMASTA nov. Thaumasta, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 79 (1871), non descr. nee Type. Gistl. Crust. 1848 expressa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus and tibias clothed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rectangular, the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 5 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars, 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectiuate with moderate branches to apex. A. Fore wing variegated with yello^v escpressa. B. F'ore wing not variegated with yellow siderigera. 2559. Athaumasta expressa. Eumichiis expressa. Led. Verb. Wien, 1855, p. 109, pi. 1. f. 8 ; Schaff. Neue Schmett. f. 63; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. Thaumasta ochracea, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 410. Thaumasta nana. Stand. Iris, ix. p. 241 (1896). c?. Head and thorax orange mixed with whitish and black scales ; vertex of head and metathorax with pairs of black spots ; teguloB with black band near upper edge ; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen fuscous mixed with whitish, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish. Pore wing greyish white tinged in parts with orange and irrorated with black ; subbasal line double at Fig. 123.—Athaumasta exfressa, (^. then single, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined by white on inner side, excurved in submedian inter- space and angled inwards on vein 1 and to inner margin ; claviform indistinctly def
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