. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. Fig. 225.—Ptyonota formostt, $. 5-- underside white with a purplish tinge, a patch of rufous suffusion on costal area before middle and a terminal series of points. Bah. BuEMA, Tenasserim Valley {Doherty), type t § in Coll. Druce ; Singapore {Ridley)^ 1 $ . Ex^i. 34 millim. Genus MICROZADA, nov. Type, M. anamica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching to about vertex of bead and smoothly scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to two
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. Fig. 225.—Ptyonota formostt, $. 5-- underside white with a purplish tinge, a patch of rufous suffusion on costal area before middle and a terminal series of points. Bah. BuEMA, Tenasserim Valley {Doherty), type t § in Coll. Druce ; Singapore {Ridley)^ 1 $ . Ex^i. 34 millim. Genus MICROZADA, nov. Type, M. anamica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching to about vertex of bead and smoothly scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to two-thirds length, the apical part ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 10 from beyond 7, or abnormally 9, 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 fully developed from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing w ith the cell near base only. 6988. Microzada ansBinica, n. sp. S' Head, thorax, and abdomen pinkish white, the head, teguloe, and patagia tinged with sap-green ; antennae with the branches brown ; abdomen with the basal crest tipped with black. Fore. Fig. 226.—Microzada anamica, (^. f. wing white tinged with purplish pink and suffused with sap-green except on terminal area ; a slight dark antemedial line somewhat angled outwards on median nervure; a black point in middle of cell and small black discoidal lunule; an indistinct postmedial line,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, Georg
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