. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TLUSILLA. ACHERDOA. i91 and siinious postmedial line; the underside yellowish white, the costal area tinged with pink, a slight dark discoidal lunule. Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri; C. China, Shanghai (Pryer), 1 S , Ichang {Pratt), 1 5 , Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 ? . ^.rjJ. 28-30 millim. Genus ACHERDOA. ^ lype. Acherdoa. Wlk. xxxii. 451 (1865) ferraria. Varina, Neum. Papilio, iv. p. 94 (1884) ferraria. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint short, rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate; Irons
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TLUSILLA. ACHERDOA. i91 and siinious postmedial line; the underside yellowish white, the costal area tinged with pink, a slight dark discoidal lunule. Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri; C. China, Shanghai (Pryer), 1 S , Ichang {Pratt), 1 5 , Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 ? . ^.rjJ. 28-30 millim. Genus ACHERDOA. ^ lype. Acherdoa. Wlk. xxxii. 451 (1865) ferraria. Varina, Neum. Papilio, iv. p. 94 (1884) ferraria. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint short, rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; thorax clothed chiefly with rough scales and without crests; tibice fringed with long hair on outer side; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, large on medial segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 ana- stomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3460. Acherdoa ferraria. Acherdoa ferraria, Wlk. xsxii. 451 (1865); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 195. â Varina ornata, [Jfeum. Papilio, iv. p. 94 (1884). Head and thorax rufous mixed with some yellowish white; palpi blackish at sides; frons with lateral black bars; tegulie black at base; tarsi whitish; abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing bright rufous, the medial area with the cell and area just below it and beyond the reniform suft'used with black, the terminal area greyish broAvn; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa, a short black streak below base of cell; antemedial line defined by pure white on inner side, oblique, excurved below cell and slightly above inner margin; orbicular and reniform with. Fig. IbQ.â Acherdoa ferraria, (^. \
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