. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 462 ARCTIADJS. crimson patch; fore coxae and femora crimson ; abdomen dorsally crimson, banded with black except at base, the ventral surface black. Fore wing black, creamy-white subbasal and medial rounded spots in cell extending to just below the cell; two similar conjoined discoidal spots ; a sinuous subterminal series of small spots, the spot above vein 5 displaced inwards. Hind wing crimson, the base, termen, and cilia black. Hab. Madagascak, 4 S type luctifera. Exp. 38 millim. Genus EUARCTIA. Type. Carcinopyga, Felcl. Rei
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 462 ARCTIADJS. crimson patch; fore coxae and femora crimson ; abdomen dorsally crimson, banded with black except at base, the ventral surface black. Fore wing black, creamy-white subbasal and medial rounded spots in cell extending to just below the cell; two similar conjoined discoidal spots ; a sinuous subterminal series of small spots, the spot above vein 5 displaced inwards. Hind wing crimson, the base, termen, and cilia black. Hab. Madagascak, 4 S type luctifera. Exp. 38 millim. Genus EUARCTIA. Type. Carcinopyga, Felcl. Reis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non deacr.; Hmpsn. Mothslnd. iv. p. 492 (18%) lichenigera. Euarctia, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 79 (1887) proserpina. Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect to just beyond frous ; anteunte of female simple; tibiae with the spurs short; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; (i from upper angle; 9 and ]0 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole and emitted together ; ] 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from before middle of cell. A. Hind wing scarlet lichenigera. B. Hind wing ochreous proserpina. *20o7. Euarctia lichenigera. Carcinopyqa lichenigera, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 3 (1874); Hmpsn. Moths ind. ii. p. 36, & iv. p. 492 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 911. $. Head and thorax grey-brown ; antennae black; abdomen crimson above, black at sides, the black expanding dorsally on. Fig. 202.—Euarctia lichenigera, J. \. (From Moths Ind. iv. f. 260.) terminal segment. Fore wing yellow-grey irrorated with black ; the base yellow ; five transverse yellow bands with waved edges, the postmedial band excurved round end of cell. Hind wing crimson ; a black spot at end of cell; two elongate subterminal patches and a small spot above vein 1. Hab. Himalayas, Ladak. 70 millim. Typet in Coll. Please note tha
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