. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. APINA. 449 Genus APINA. Type. Aplna, Wlk. iii. 756 (1855) callislo. Amazela, Boisd. Eev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 66 (1874) callisto. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, short, fringed with long hair ; frons with long flattened corneous process and quadrate corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform ; antennae of male bipeetinate with rather long branches to apex; thor ix clothed with hair only and without crests; tibia: moderatelj' fringed with hair; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex round
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. APINA. 449 Genus APINA. Type. Aplna, Wlk. iii. 756 (1855) callislo. Amazela, Boisd. Eev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 66 (1874) callisto. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, short, fringed with long hair ; frons with long flattened corneous process and quadrate corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform ; antennae of male bipeetinate with rather long branches to apex; thor ix clothed with hair only and without crests; tibia: moderatelj' fringed with hair; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen erenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- tomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 fi'om upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4924. Apina callisto. Apina callisto, Wlk. iii. 756 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 442. Head and thorax black with some white hair; sides of head, tegulfe, and edges of patagia with yellowish white stripes, the last with some orange hair at '; fore femora fringed with yellow hair, the tibiie and tarsi banded with white ; abdomen orange with narrow black segmental bands, the 1st sesment black, the ventral surface banded black and white. Fore wing red-brown. Fig. 215.—Apina , J. irrorated with yellowish white and with rufous streaks in sub- median fold and the interspaces beyond the cell; subbasal line represented by a yellow striga from below costa; anteraedial line indistinct, yellowish", diffused, oblique, interrupted at submedian fold, a small yellow spot just beyond it in cell and an elliptical spot towards end of cell defined by black ; postmedial line very indistinct, , oblique and sinuous to vein 2, then bent inwards and with oblique yellow bar before it beyond the cell and spot above vein 2
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