. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PE^ESTILBrA . HYPOSTILBIA. 293 medial line indistinct, whitish, with a minute wedge-shaped black spot before it from costa and a black bar on its outer edge in sub- median interspace representing- the claviform; orbicular and reniform large, pale, with whitish annuli at sides, the former round with a quadrate black spot on its inner edge confluent with the ante- medial line and a V-shaped black spot between them, the latter. Fig. 87.—Prcesfilhia armcniaca, S • {• defined by dark scales on outer side ; an indistinct diffused c
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PE^ESTILBrA . HYPOSTILBIA. 293 medial line indistinct, whitish, with a minute wedge-shaped black spot before it from costa and a black bar on its outer edge in sub- median interspace representing- the claviform; orbicular and reniform large, pale, with whitish annuli at sides, the former round with a quadrate black spot on its inner edge confluent with the ante- medial line and a V-shaped black spot between them, the latter. Fig. 87.—Prcesfilhia armcniaca, S • {• defined by dark scales on outer side ; an indistinct diffused curved medial brown line; postmedial line unusually near termen, double, dark, slightly excurved at middle, aud oblique below vein 4, a wedge-sha])ed brown shade on its outer edge from costa to vein 5 ; snbterminal line absent; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish, ths terminal area tinged with brown from apex to submedian fold; a terminal series of slight dark points; the underside whitish. Hah. HuNGAKY; Greece ; Asia Minoe, Pontus, 1 S • Exp. 32 millim. Genus HYPOSTILBIA, nov. Type, H. megaMkjma. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head aud fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; anteunss of male ciliated ; build slender ; head and tliorax clothed with scales; the prothorax with spreading crest; the metalhorax without crest; tibiEe moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen elongate, slender, without crests. Fore wing elongate, ratiier narrow, the termen evenly rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; the areole rather large, vein 6 from it; '.• from 10 anastomosing with 8 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and (3,7 rather strongly stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars; 8 rather strongly anastomosing with cell. A. Fore wing with the orbicular and renitorm fuscous defined by whitish points mcijaMigma. B. Fore wing with the orbicu
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