. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 146 base ; fore femora black above ; ttirsi fuscous brown. Fore wiiig yellow tinged with flesh-colour; a small fuscous black triangular spot on costa above end of cell connected with a cui-A'cd deep black diseoidal striga somewhat dilated above; an oblique fuscous black apical spot. Hind wing yellcnv faintly tinged with fiery red except on cosfcil area; a small fuscous patch at apex. 2 . Fore wing very faintly striated with brown. I£ab. Madras {Watson), 1 6 ; Ceylon, 1 $ tvpe tctraapila. Kiy. 32 millim. Genus GONODON
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 146 base ; fore femora black above ; ttirsi fuscous brown. Fore wiiig yellow tinged with flesh-colour; a small fuscous black triangular spot on costa above end of cell connected with a cui-A'cd deep black diseoidal striga somewhat dilated above; an oblique fuscous black apical spot. Hind wing yellcnv faintly tinged with fiery red except on cosfcil area; a small fuscous patch at apex. 2 . Fore wing very faintly striated with brown. I£ab. Madras {Watson), 1 6 ; Ceylon, 1 $ tvpe tctraapila. Kiy. 32 millim. Genus GONODONTODES, nov. Type, G. dispar. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, tiie 3rd rather long; froiissniootli, witii tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennie of male pectinate with long branches, the apex ciliated ; thorax clotlied with hair and liairlike scales and without crests ; tibiaj moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibiae not spined, the hind tibias spined ; abdomen d<)rsally clothed with woolly hair at base but without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex not produced, the termen not crennlato ; veins 3 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 the termen somewhat excurved at middle ; the cell about one-third lengtii of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fidlj developed from just above angle; ('), 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with tiie cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at vein 5. 7930. G-onodontodes chionosticta, n. sp. Head and thoi*ax bright red-brown ; antenna^ with the basal joint white on outer side ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey-brown ; abdomen grey-brown dorsally tinged with red-brown. Fore wing bright. Fig. 41.— GoiioiIoii(ihIc!> cliio>ios(ic/a, cJ. }. glossy red-brown, irroi-ated with a few white scales ; a small
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