. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. PSYCHAUIUM.—CnLANIDOPnOllA. 451 Genus PSYCHARIUM. Type. Psycharium, Aussereur. Schraett. p. 76 (1850) pcUuceiis. Proboscis absent; palpi minute, porreet; antennae of female clothed with hair above, short; head, thorax, pectus, legs, abdomen at base and extremity and on ventral surface clothed with very long hair; tibiae with the spurs minute, hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent; wings very sparsely clothed with hair. Fore wing rather long and
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. PSYCHAUIUM.—CnLANIDOPnOllA. 451 Genus PSYCHARIUM. Type. Psycharium, Aussereur. Schraett. p. 76 (1850) pcUuceiis. Proboscis absent; palpi minute, porreet; antennae of female clothed with hair above, short; head, thorax, pectus, legs, abdomen at base and extremity and on ventral surface clothed with very long hair; tibiae with the spurs minute, hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent; wings very sparsely clothed with hair. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the inner margin arched towards base ; vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from middle of discocellulars; 7 from below upper angle or shortly stalked with 8, 9 4 10 absent; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 from middle of discocellulars; 8 from or from just before angle of cell. 2045. Psycharium pellucens. Ps7/chariunv 'pellvLcens, Aussereur. Schmett. f. 461 (1850) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 498. 2 . Head aad thorax clothed with very long black and white hair; abdomen with the first two segments clothed with long black- brown hair, the medial segments dorsally golden cupreous, the terminal segments and ventral surface clothed with very long black and white hair. Fore wing very sparsely clothed with black and. Psycharium 'pellucens, ^ • white hair, the margins narrowly black; a blackish streak in cell and a spot in end of it surrounded by a white ring; an oblique series of dentate white spots from costa to vein 4. Hind wing very sparsely clothed with brown hair ; the margins narrowly brown. Hah. Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 $, Capetown {Claremont)^ I $ . Exp. 42 millim. Genus Type. Chlanidophora, Berg, Bull. Mosc. lii. p. 9 (1877) patagtata. Proboscis absent; palpi porreet, short; frons with truncate oonical promi- nence ; antennae of male simple; head and thor
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