. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GRAPHANIV. 469 tibiffi fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsil crest on basal segment, dorsally clothed with rough hair at base and with Literal fringes. Fore wing rather produced, the termen obliquely curved; veins .3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle ; 9 I'rom 10 anasfomosing with 8 to forui the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; ti, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennte of


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GRAPHANIV. 469 tibiffi fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsil crest on basal segment, dorsally clothed with rough hair at base and with Literal fringes. Fore wing rather produced, the termen obliquely curved; veins .3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle ; 9 I'rom 10 anasfomosing with 8 to forui the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; ti, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennte of male bipectiuate with long branches, the apical part serrate. 1816. Graphania disjungens. Heliopkohus dlsjungens, Wlk. xv. 1681 (1858); Hudson, Now Zjaland Moths & Butterflies, p. 15, pi. v. f. 43. Hadena nervata, Guen. Eut. Mo. Mag. v. p. 40 (1868). Head and thorax white mixed with some hrown ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with black medial line and brown tips ; patag-ia edged with black ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing white tinged in parts with yellow, irrorated. Fig. 138.— Graphania dlfjiLngcns, ^, with black and suffused with brown on medial and terminal areas ; the veins white; subbasal line represented by oblique black striae from costa and cell, the latter followed by a slight black streak in Bubmedian fold, then by obliquely placed black and white streaks above and below vein 1; antemcdial line black, interrupted at the veins, oblique from costa to above vein 1; claviform defined by black above ; orbicular and reniform small, with brown centres and white aunuli defined by black, the former round ; a medial lino oblique from costa to below cell, then waved ; postmedial line lunu- late, bent outwards below costa, cxcurved to vein 4, then oblique and angled inwards to antemedial line in submcdian fold ; subterminal line white, defined by more or less prominent somewhat dentate black marks before and beyond it, angled outwards at


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