. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AITETA. 533 and 5. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; cilia white at tips. Underside with the costal and terminal areas of fore wing and the costal area of hind wing pinkish rufous. 5. Abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface white; hind wing white, the veins brown, the terminal area tinged with brown from apex to vein 2. Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Albert Edward Range (i?oA;i), 1 J , Sogeri, 1 6 ; Queensland, 1 cJ , 2 $ type. Exp. 6 -^8, $ 46 millim. 6912. Aiteta musculina. Aiteta muscidina, Wlk. ix. 131 (1856). ' Chaladr
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AITETA. 533 and 5. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; cilia white at tips. Underside with the costal and terminal areas of fore wing and the costal area of hind wing pinkish rufous. 5. Abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface white; hind wing white, the veins brown, the terminal area tinged with brown from apex to vein 2. Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Albert Edward Range (i?oA;i), 1 J , Sogeri, 1 6 ; Queensland, 1 cJ , 2 $ type. Exp. 6 -^8, $ 46 millim. 6912. Aiteta musculina. Aiteta muscidina, Wlk. ix. 131 (1856). ' Chaladra ciicuUioides, Wlk. xxxii. 640 (1865); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p.,98, pi. ill. f. 2. Head and tegulse olive-fuscous ; thorax violaceous brown mixed with grey; palpi at base and pectus white; legs white irrorated with brown ; abdomen fuscous, the crests and extremity violaceous brown, the ventral surface white tinged with purplish. Pore wing violaceous grey suffused with brown and irrorated with dark brown ; a slight oblique dark line from costa before middle to middle of inner margin; a black discoidal point; postmedial line with. Fig. 203.—Aiteta muscidina, S - \- slight dark shade at costa, obliquely curved to vein 3, then inwardly' oblique to inner margin near toruus ; slight obliquely placed sub- apical dark spots below veins 9, 8, 7 and a subterminal spot below vein 5. Hind wing whitish suffused with dark brown ; cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing fuscous with the costal and apical areas violaceous grey; hind wing white Avith fuscous suffusion beyond the cell and on termen towards tornus. Hah. EuEMA, Eangoon {Watson), 1 S ; Singapore {Ridley), 2 S ; Philippines {Cuming), 1 § type; Ceram, type t cucuUioides in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 40-46 millim. 6913. Aiteta apriformis. (Plate CLXXXVIII. fig. 5.) C'apotena apriformis, Wlk. xi. 715 (1857); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 419. • Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with fuscous ; antenufe. Please note that these im
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