. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PSYOUARIUM.—CnLAXIDOrHOKA. 451 Germs PSYCHARIUM. Type. Ps7/chariu)n, Aussereur. Sohinett. p. 76 (1850) pclluceiis. Proboscis absent; palpi minute, porreet: antenniC of female clothed with hair above, short; head, tliorax, pectus, legs, abd(»men at base and extremity and on ventral surface clothed with very lung hair; libias with tlio spurs jninute, hind tibia* with the medial spurs absent; wings very sparsely clothed with hair. Fore wing ratlier long and narrow, the inner margin arched towards base : vein 3 from l
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PSYOUARIUM.—CnLAXIDOrHOKA. 451 Germs PSYCHARIUM. Type. Ps7/chariu)n, Aussereur. Sohinett. p. 76 (1850) pclluceiis. Proboscis absent; palpi minute, porreet: antenniC of female clothed with hair above, short; head, tliorax, pectus, legs, abd(»men at base and extremity and on ventral surface clothed with very lung hair; libias with tlio spurs jninute, hind tibia* with the medial spurs absent; wings very sparsely clothed with hair. Fore wing ratlier long and narrow, the inner margin arched towards base : vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; ('» from middle of discocellulars; 7 from below upper angle or shortly stalked witii S, {); 10 absent ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; .') from above angle; (i from middle of discocellulars; 8 from or from just before angle of cell. 2045. Psycharium pellucens, rsychariion pellucens, Aussereur. Schmett. f. 401 (18o0) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 498. $ . Head and thorax clothed with very long black and white hair; abdomen with the first two segments clothed with long black- brown hair, the medial segments dorsally golden cupreous, the terminal segments and ventral surface clothed with very long black and white hair. Fare wing very sparsel}- clothed with black and. Fig. 190.—Psijcharium j^ellucens, 5- \. white hair, the margins narrowly black: a blackish streak in cell and a spot in end of it surrounded by a white ring; an oblique series of dentate white spots from costa to vein 4. Hind wing very sparsely clothed with brown hair ; the margins narrowly brown. Hub. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 $ , Capetown (Claremont), I 2 • E'W' -i^ millim. Genus CHLANIDOPHORA. Type. Chlanidophora, Berg, Bull. Mosc. lii. p. 9 (1877) patagiata. Proboscis absent; palpi porreet, short; frons with truncate oonical promi- nence; antenniTi of male simple; head and thorax nearly smoothly scaled; tibi:c wit
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