. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 13.—Melanogra]^hiatympanistis, cf. upper angle ; 7, 8, and 10 stalked, 9 absent, 7 from 8 after 10; 11 oblique. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 from near middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. Sect. I. Frons and basal joint of antenuse with tufts of scales ; fore wine with vein 3 from angle of cell, approximated to 4 for some distance ; a large fovea at upper angle of cell on underside, with a clubbed corneous process in it from veins 7, 8, which are much curved roun
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 13.—Melanogra]^hiatympanistis, cf. upper angle ; 7, 8, and 10 stalked, 9 absent, 7 from 8 after 10; 11 oblique. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 from near middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. Sect. I. Frons and basal joint of antenuse with tufts of scales ; fore wine with vein 3 from angle of cell, approximated to 4 for some distance ; a large fovea at upper angle of cell on underside, with a clubbed corneous process in it from veins 7, 8, which are much curved round fovea at base. 101, MelanograpMa tympanistis, n. sp. Melanographia tym'panistis, Dudgeon, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 22. S . Head and thorax white ; palpi and lower part of frons deep black ; legs black, grey, and white ; abdomen fuscous, with segmental white lines. Fore wing white from costa near base to tornus, the apical half brown irrorated with black, with tufts of leaden scales on its inner edge; some tufts of black and leaden scales on costal area above end of cell; a small tri- angular blackish patch on inner margin beyond middle ; some dark marks forming traces of an irregular postmedial line ; a subterminal line retracted to costa, angled at veins 6 and 4 and obsolete towards inner margin. Hind wing fuscous, the inner area whitish. Bah. SiKHiM, 1800 ft. (Dudc/eon), 1 J type. Ecvj). 20 millim. Sect. II. Frons smooth ; antennae without tuft on basal joint; fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell. 102. MelanograpMa flexilineata. Nola fiexilineata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xi. p. 440 (1898). Greyish white irrorated with fuscous ; palpi and lower part of frons black. Fore wing with small tufts of scales near base, at middle and upper and lower angles of ceU; some brown- ish suffusion on subbasal area; the antemedial line black, angled outwards in and below cell and on vein 1, with traces of a line parallel to its inner side ; traces of a line from low
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