. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. PSEUDEEA3TEIA,—BETOMOEA. 615 3493. Pseuderastria larentica. Amyna larentica, Hmpsn. Motlis IdcI. ii. p. 252 (1894). Head and thorax black-brown mixed witb some puq^lish pink ; pectus and legs brownish; the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen black mixed with some purplish pink. Fore wing greyish suffused with fuscous and irrorated with black and a few purplish- pink scales, the ..terminal area largely suffused with pink ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. PSEUDEEA3TEIA,—BETOMOEA. 615 3493. Pseuderastria larentica. Amyna larentica, Hmpsn. Motlis IdcI. ii. p. 252 (1894). Head and thorax black-brown mixed witb some puq^lish pink ; pectus and legs brownish; the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen black mixed with some purplish pink. Fore wing greyish suffused with fuscous and irrorated with black and a few purplish- pink scales, the ..terminal area largely suffused with pink ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular a minute reddish spot defined by black, round, very widely separated from the reniform which has a red centre with some blackish at upper and lower extremities and pale annulus slightly defined by black, very narrow and con- stricted at middle ; traces of a diffused black medial line ; post- medial line black defined by greyish on outer side, bent outAvards. Fig. 159.—Pseuderastria larentica, (j'. \. below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pink points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black, defined on each side by pink suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined by pink on inner side ; cilia blackish with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing fuscous : an indistinct minutely waved postmedial line defined by greyish on outer side ; a fine dark terminal line with slight pale lunules before it: cilia with series of pale points at base ; the underside greyish thickly irrorated with dark brown, an oblique medial line and rather diffused postmedial line excurved at middle. Hah. BntiTAisr {Dudgeon), 1 5 ; Assam, Naga Hills (Dohert/j), type t d in Coll. Rothschild. Fxj}. 6 28, $ 34 millim. Genus BRYOMffiA. Type. Bryomoia, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 397 (1892) melachlora. Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons, the 3r


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