. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. STICTOTHEIPA. GTRTOUIDES. 453 above vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle, below vein 3 bent inwards, and angled inwards on vein 1, a faint olive line beyond it; two small blackish spots on postmedial part of costa; subterminal line blackish, slightly angled outwards below costa and more strongly at veins 6, 4, 3, angled inwards at vein 2, then with strong black shade defined on inner side by brown and ending at tornus ; a faint yellowish line before termen ; a terminal series of brown striae and a spot
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. STICTOTHEIPA. GTRTOUIDES. 453 above vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle, below vein 3 bent inwards, and angled inwards on vein 1, a faint olive line beyond it; two small blackish spots on postmedial part of costa; subterminal line blackish, slightly angled outwards below costa and more strongly at veins 6, 4, 3, angled inwards at vein 2, then with strong black shade defined on inner side by brown and ending at tornus ; a faint yellowish line before termen ; a terminal series of brown striae and a spot between veins 4, 3 ; cilia yellowish at base, white at tips, with dark line at middle, and series of black points at tips. Hind wing white, the inner and terminal areas tinged with brown, a narrow black discoidal bar; traces of postmedial and subterminal dark points on the veins and oblique bars from vein 2 to inner margin ; a terminal series of dark points; cilia with a dark line at middle ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; the postmedial line crenulate to vein 2 and excurved below costa, the termen with dark patch to vein 5, subterminal spots ou median nervules and oblique black bar at tornus. Eore wing with vein 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a moderate areole. Hab. CosiA Rica, Sixola R. {Scliaus), type f c? in Kat. Mus. Exp. A'Z millim. Genus GYRTONIDES, nov. Type, G. albifascia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptuniefl, the 2nd joiut reaching to middle of t'rons and slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd short, porrect; irons smooth with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male with long cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore tibise fringed on both sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibiEB moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 fr
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