. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TASEOriERYX. TEOGOTORN'A, 331 parts with rufous, the costal edge brownish ; the basal area with some brownish suffusion in and just below cell aud a slight black streak in submedian fold; an obliquelj^ downcurved ochreous white fascia slightly defined by black from subcostal nervure before middle to postmedial line in submedian interspace, followed by a triangular patch of brown suffusion in, below, and beyond the cell with the broad diffused yellowish-white reniform on it; the area. Fig. 97.â Taseopteryx sericea, <^. -j
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TASEOriERYX. TEOGOTORN'A, 331 parts with rufous, the costal edge brownish ; the basal area with some brownish suffusion in and just below cell aud a slight black streak in submedian fold; an obliquelj^ downcurved ochreous white fascia slightly defined by black from subcostal nervure before middle to postmedial line in submedian interspace, followed by a triangular patch of brown suffusion in, below, and beyond the cell with the broad diffused yellowish-white reniform on it; the area. Fig. 97.â Taseopteryx sericea, <^. -j- from upper angle of cell to costa towards apex whitish with dark streaks on the veins and with some rufous suffusion beyond it; postmedial line double, black filled in with whitish, obliquely incurved from vein 6 to submedian fold where it is slightly bent outwards ; an oblique whitish streak from apex; the interspaces of terminal area with slight whitish streaks, their basal parts slightly defined above and below by fuscous scales; some blackish points on termen above tornus; cilia chequered brown and whitish. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown; a fine brown terminal line ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a black point at upper angle of cell and irregularly sinuous brown postmedial line. Hab. Chili {Edmonds), 2 d type, Valparaiso (J. J. Wtdlcer), 4 $ . Kijy. 28 millim. Genus TEOGOTORNA, nov. Type, T. persecia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; f'rons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges, its lower part filled in -nith scales; eyes large, round; antennee of female minutely ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the protliorax with small spreading crest, the metathorax without crest; tibiae moderately frinfred with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only and lateral tufts of scales from above the stigmata. Fore wing rather long and narr
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