. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ACHATODKS. 31 antenna' of male ciliated and with ridge of scales on base of sliaft; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and with broad dorsal ridge of long scales; tibife moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of large cresis, lateral tufts of hair on terminal segments and large spreading anal tnlt. Fore wing with the apex rounded, rhe termcn evenly curved and slightly crenulate veins 'A and T) from near angle of cell; 6 from npper angle ; 9 from 10 anaston)osing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ACHATODKS. 31 antenna' of male ciliated and with ridge of scales on base of sliaft; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and with broad dorsal ridge of long scales; tibife moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of large cresis, lateral tufts of hair on terminal segments and large spreading anal tnlt. Fore wing with the apex rounded, rhe termcn evenly curved and slightly crenulate veins 'A and T) from near angle of cell; 6 from npper angle ; 9 from 10 anaston)osing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of dis-cocellulars ; 6, 7 from njjper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown cc(S.'' E. Hind wing dark brown Juaiice. 4326. Achatodes zeaB. Gnrfj/va -ra. Harr. Ins. inj. to Veg. 1st ed. p. 319 (1841); id. Flint ed. p. 439, pi. 7. f. 9; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 179. Ach^iiode^ mndix, Giien. Noet. i. p. 132, pi. G. f. 4 (1852j. Head and thorax fiery red mixed Avitli pale yellow ; palpi and sides of froiis daik brown ; tegulae with brown patches at sides ; patagia with brown upper edges ; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dorsally fiery red, vcntrally dark brown. Fore wing with the costal half grey-brown suffused with fiery red at base, in end of cell and at apex, the inner half grey with some red suffusion at base, middle and termen, the veins with dark streaks : subbasal line indistinct, double, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, Avith black point on its inner edge at vein 1, nearly erect; claviform small, defined by brown ; orbicular small, narrow, oblique, with brown centre and grey aunulus ; reniform grey, its centre defined by brown, rather obliijue ; an indistinct oblique waved red line. Fig. 7.—Achatodes zecB, (^. \. from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postme
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