. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ONCOCjSTEMIS,—ECIOCHELA. 179 brownish; a fine brown terminal line; the underside with tho costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. , Texas, Colorado, Arizona, 2 S type, Prescot* (Kunze), 1 cS • Exp. 30-3J- millim. Genus ECTOCHELA. Ectochela, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr, Mus. ii. p. 279 (1902) Type. canina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the. 3rd rather porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenniB of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; head a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ONCOCjSTEMIS,—ECIOCHELA. 179 brownish; a fine brown terminal line; the underside with tho costal area irrorated with brown. Hab. , Texas, Colorado, Arizona, 2 S type, Prescot* (Kunze), 1 cS • Exp. 30-3J- millim. Genus ECTOCHELA. Ectochela, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr, Mus. ii. p. 279 (1902) Type. canina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed with hair in front, the. 3rd rather porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenniB of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-lite scales, the pro- and metathoras with spreading crests ; fore tibia with curved claw on outer side at extremity; abdomen with some rough hair at base and without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the termeu obliquely curved ; veins o and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 fx'om angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing witli the cell near base only. 2309. Ectocliela canina, Acronycta canina, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 100. f. 10 (1874). S. White; head, thorax, and abdomen slightly irrorated with black ; palpi blackish at sides; antennae and tarsi blackish except at base. Pore wing sparsely irrorated with black and brown scales ; the median nervnre, veins 7, 6, 5, and bases of veins 4, 3, 2 sometimes streaked with black ; a more or less prominent black streak below base of cell; au antemedial black striga from costa and short streak on vein 1 : reniform represented by a small black annulus or lunule ; postmedial line reduced to a series of rather. Fig. 48.—Ectochela canina, <S • \- streak-like points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a faint oblique streak from termen below apex with faint diffused subterminal line from it to inner margin ;
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