. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. rARDASEJTA. 245 Genus Type. Pardascna, Wlk. xxxv. 1730 (1866) rceselioidcs. Proboscis i'uUj developed ; palpi u])turned, the 2iid joint reaeliing to vertex of head and slenderly scaled, tlie 3rd long ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenniB ot male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with- out crests ; tibire sliglitly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing witli tlie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from rea
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. rARDASEJTA. 245 Genus Type. Pardascna, Wlk. xxxv. 1730 (1866) rceselioidcs. Proboscis i'uUj developed ; palpi u])turned, the 2iid joint reaeliing to vertex of head and slenderly scaled, tlie 3rd long ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenniB ot male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with- out crests ; tibire sliglitly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing witli tlie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from rear angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent, coincident with 3, rarely given off just before termen ; 6, 7 from upper augle; 8 anastomosing with the coll near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing of male on underside with patch of black androconia in and below cell; hind wing with black androconia on upper and under sides of costal area to beyond middle, tlie tornus contorted and with tufts of black hair in tiie cilia on underside. 6511. Pardasena virgulana. Sarrothrlpa virgulana, Mab. C. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxIm. p. xvii (lS80j â Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 369. Giaura nigriscripia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 642 (1905). Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore Aviiig grey-white irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown ; a black streak on subcostal nervure to the obliquely curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line almost medial, black defined on inner side by white, excurved at subcostal nervure and below the cell, angled inwards at vein 1, two sliglit black streaks or a black fascia. 'Fig. 87.âPardascna virgulana, cJ. |. between it and postmedial line above submediun fold; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by white, oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at di
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