. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. BOEBOXAXA. TELESILLA. 58: ^vith rufous, a small rufous discoidal spot and minutely crenulate postmedial line slightly bent outwards below costa. Hah. Br. New Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type f d" in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exjj. 26 millira. B. Fore wing with veins 8, 9 curved clownwards and with groove of ribbed membrane above them, 10 from ceil and curved upwards. *3456. Borbotana dinava. Borhotana dinawa, , Nov. Zool. siii. p. 208 (1906). S. Head and thorax very dark purplish brown ; tegulse tipped
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. BOEBOXAXA. TELESILLA. 58: ^vith rufous, a small rufous discoidal spot and minutely crenulate postmedial line slightly bent outwards below costa. Hah. Br. New Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), type f d" in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exjj. 26 millira. B. Fore wing with veins 8, 9 curved clownwards and with groove of ribbed membrane above them, 10 from ceil and curved upwards. *3456. Borbotana dinava. Borhotana dinawa, , Nov. Zool. siii. p. 208 (1906). S. Head and thorax very dark purplish brown ; tegulse tipped with white at middle ; pectus whitish at sides; abdomen whitish suffused with dark purplish brown on dorsum and on terminal half of ventral surface. Fore wing very dark chocolate-brown with a pui-plish-grey gloss except on disk ; a very oblique pure white fascia from base of costa to middle of submedian fold where it ends in a point, its upper edge angled outwards in cell; a triangular white mark in end of cell with its lower extremity produced as a fascia to above middle of vein 4 with a white point beyond it; an oblique. Fig. 146.—Borbotana dinava. (^. \. dark band formed of short diffused streaks from apex to inner margin beyond middle where there is a white striga on its outer edge; a narrow black-brown terminal band. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with purple-brown, broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus ; cilia purple-brown, whitish towards tornus ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, a small discoidal spot and postmedial line excurved between veins 7 and 2. Hah. Br. New Guinea, Dinawa {Pratt), type t J in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exj^). 28 millim. Genus TELESILLA. Type. Placodes, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 143 (1844), nee Erich. Col. 1834 amethystina. Telesilla, Schmett. Eur. vi. Index, p. 47 (1855). amethystina. Eacarta, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 168 (1857) amethystina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud jo
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