. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. COMACLA.—POLIOBULE. 339 E. Antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated; fore wing with the apex rounded. 713. Comacla senex. Bomhyxsenex, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 236-237 (1804); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., ii. p. 84 ; Boisd. Icones, ii. p. 113, pi. 58. f. 10; Stand. Oat. p. 52; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 360. Nudaria rotunda, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 156 (1809). Pale yellowish brown ; vertex of head with a fuscous spot. Fore wing with curved antemedial, medial, and postmedial series of fuscous striae on the vein
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. COMACLA.—POLIOBULE. 339 E. Antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated; fore wing with the apex rounded. 713. Comacla senex. Bomhyxsenex, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 236-237 (1804); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., ii. p. 84 ; Boisd. Icones, ii. p. 113, pi. 58. f. 10; Stand. Oat. p. 52; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 360. Nudaria rotunda, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 156 (1809). Pale yellowish brown ; vertex of head with a fuscous spot. Fore wing with curved antemedial, medial, and postmedial series of fuscous striae on the veins; a prominent discoidal spot; a series of points on the cilia. Hind wing paler, with slight discoidal lunule; traces of a subterminal series of striae Fig. 2AI.—Comacla senex, (^. i. on the veins and of a series of points on the cilia. Hab. N., Cejsttr., and S. Eueope, Zell. and Frey Colls.; K. Asia. Exp. 22 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 30; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 196, pi. 66. f. 1. Dark grey with an ochreous tinge ; hairs grey-black. Food-plant, Lichens; 8-5. Sect. II. Proboscis fully developed ; antennae pectinate in both sexes. *714. Comacla juvenis. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) Nudaria juvenis, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 412 (1893). 2 . Fuscous brown ; legs with blackish bands. Fore wing with subbasal black spots on costa and below cell; an irregularly waved antemedial line expanding into a black spot on costa and bent out- wards below the cell; a black point in middle of cell and discoidal lunule; dentate medial and postmedial lines commencing as promi- nent bars on costa, then strongly bent outwards round the end of cell and again incurved; some diffused blackish subterminal spots bent outwards to termen at middle ; a terminal series of striae. Hind wing fuscous brown, with discoidal spot more prominent on underside. Hah. W. Africa, Ogove R., type t $ in Coll. Holland. 22 millim. Genus POLIODULE, nov. Type, P. xanthodelta. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porr
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