. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 55.âMetjanaclia sippia, ^ ⢠r* and obsolescent towards costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge waved and defining a very obscure postmedial series of spots. (5 rather darker, with the spots smaller. Hab. Old Calabar, 1 $ {Rutherford) ; Cameeoons ; Niger. Exp. 60 millim. Genus THYRETES. Thyretes, Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596 (1847) Type. hippotes. Proboscis absent; palpi minute, hairy, downturned ; antennse bipectinate in male, serrate in female;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 55.âMetjanaclia sippia, ^ ⢠r* and obsolescent towards costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge waved and defining a very obscure postmedial series of spots. (5 rather darker, with the spots smaller. Hab. Old Calabar, 1 $ {Rutherford) ; Cameeoons ; Niger. Exp. 60 millim. Genus THYRETES. Thyretes, Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596 (1847) Type. hippotes. Proboscis absent; palpi minute, hairy, downturned ; antennse bipectinate in male, serrate in female; legs fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiae with minute terminal pairs of spurs ; abdomen with two small dorsal tufts at base. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa arched towards apex which is somewhat produced and acute; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5from well above angle or middle of discocellulars; 7 absent. Sect. I. Build stout; frons with large tuft of hair ; femora and tibia? fringed with long hair. A. Wings with the markings hyaline. B. Wings with the markings yellow hippotcs. montana,. 259. Thyretes hippotes. am. Pap. 286. A Head and tegulae white; a large frontal tuft brown below ; â >hinx hippotes, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 286. A (1780); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. Fig. 56.â Thyretes hippotes, (S. \. branches of antennae blackish, the basal joint yellow; thorax white, with brown dorsal stripe, the patagia fringed with brown ; abdomen white, with dorsal and lateral series of brown diamond-shaped marks,. 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 Hampson, George Francis, 1860-1936. London : British Museum
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