. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. rR-KSTlLniA. IIVPOSTIMUA. £1)3 medial line indistinct, whitish, with a minute wedge-shaped black spot before it from costa and a black bar on its outer edge in sub- median interspace representing the claviform; orbicular and reniform large, pale, with whitish annuli at sides, the former round with a quadrate black spot on its inner edge confluent with the ante- medial line and a V-shaped black spot between them, tlu! Fig. 87.—Piresfilbia armcnlaca, (^. [. defined by dark scales on outer side ; an indistinct diffused cu
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. rR-KSTlLniA. IIVPOSTIMUA. £1)3 medial line indistinct, whitish, with a minute wedge-shaped black spot before it from costa and a black bar on its outer edge in sub- median interspace representing the claviform; orbicular and reniform large, pale, with whitish annuli at sides, the former round with a quadrate black spot on its inner edge confluent with the ante- medial line and a V-shaped black spot between them, tlu! Fig. 87.—Piresfilbia armcnlaca, (^. [. defined by dark scales on outer side ; an indistinct diffused curved medial brown line; postmedial line unusuall)* near termcn, double, dark, slightly excurved at middle, aud oblique below vein 4, a wedge-sha])ed brown shade on its outer edge from costa to vein 5 ; subterminal line absent; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish, ths terminal area tinged with brown from apex to submedian fold; a terminal series of sliglit dark points; the underside whitish. Jrfah. HujiGAiiY; Greece ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 1 c?. 32 millim. Genus HYPOSTILBIA, nov. Type, H. mcgastigma. Proboscis liilly developecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of liead aud fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; anteunte of male ciliated ; build slender ; head and tiiorax clothed with scales; the pruthfiras with spreading crest; the metalliorax without crest; tibite modenitely fringed with hair; abdomen elongate, slender, without crests. Fore wing elongate, ratiier narrow, the termen evenly rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; the areole rather large, vein 6 from it; '.t from 10 anastomosing witli 8 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 and 0, 7 raiher strongly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discucelhilars ; 8 rather strongly anastomosing with cell. A. Fore wing with the orbicalar and i-eniform fuscous defined by whilisli points Qimjasihjma. B. Fore wing with th
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