. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. •BITYIA. 41 Genus BITYLA. „ Type. Bityla, Wlk. xxsiii. 869 (1865) clejigurata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about middle of frons and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with long hair only and without crests ; tibias moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. •BITYIA. 41 Genus BITYLA. „ Type. Bityla, Wlk. xxsiii. 869 (1865) clejigurata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about middle of frons and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with long hair only and without crests ; tibias moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent irum just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing brown. a. Fore wing with the cilia brown defigttrata. b. Fore wing with the cilia whitish, pure white at base sericea. B. Fore wing white pallida. 2775. Bityla defigurata. 2^ylina defigurata. Wlk. xsxiii. 756 (1865"); Hudson, N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 29, pi. 5. f. 33. Bityla thoracica, Wlk. sxxiii. 869 (1865). Head and thorax dark red-browB ; tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Pore wing dark reddish brown slightly irrorated with greyish; ante- medial line very indistinct, oblique, waved ; stigmata absent; post- medial line indistinct, slightly defined by greyish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, waved ;. Fig. 7.—Bityla defigurata, c? • t- subterminal line absent. Hind wing uniform dark reddish brown ; cilia with a slight grey line at base; the underside irrorated with greyish, a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct diffused curved post- medial line. Hah. K. Zealand, S. Island (Colenso, Bolton, Hector, MatJiew), 1 (S, 3 $ , type ihoracica, Auckland (Oxley),
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