. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 168 NOCTUlDiE. Genus STILBINA. Type. Stilbina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 290 (1891) Tiypmnidcs. Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, short, moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd joint minute; irons with long bilobed corneous process with tuft of hair above it and shorter corneous plate below it excised in front; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; build slender ; thoi-ax clotlied with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibiaa
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 168 NOCTUlDiE. Genus STILBINA. Type. Stilbina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 290 (1891) Tiypmnidcs. Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, short, moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd joint minute; irons with long bilobed corneous process with tuft of hair above it and shorter corneous plate below it excised in front; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; build slender ; thoi-ax clotlied with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibiaa smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; (> (roiu upper angle; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areoie; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocelliilars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one third. 3765. Stilbina hypaenides. Stilbina hy^pmnides, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 290, pi. 3. f. 12 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pai. p. 194. S. Head yellowish white; sides of palpi and frons red-brown ; thorax ochreons suffused with red-brown ; legs red-brown, the tarsi fuscous with white rings; abdomen oclireous white. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale ferruginous, the costal area suffused with brown, the median nervure and base of veins arising from it slightly streaked with white ; a dark mark at base of costa and. & Fig. 22.—Stilbina liypcBiiides, (^. {. small subbasal black mark above inner margin; a slight brown streak in basal half of submedian fold defined by whitish below: antemedial line slight, black, angled outwards below costa and in cell, then obsolete ; orbicular a large elongate elliptical black- brown patch ; reniform a black-brown patch truncate above and rounded below, where it is broken up by the white on veins at lower angle of cell; postmedial line rep
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