. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NAETnECOPHORA. AZENIA. 375 wing long and narrow, tlie apex rounclecl, the termen obliquely curved and not creuulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *4826. Narthecophora pulverea. Nm-ihecopliora pulverea. Smith, Proc. Nat. Mas. sxii. p. 486 (1900); Dyar, Cat.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NAETnECOPHORA. AZENIA. 375 wing long and narrow, tlie apex rounclecl, the termen obliquely curved and not creuulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell, Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *4826. Narthecophora pulverea. Nm-ihecopliora pulverea. Smith, Proc. Nat. Mas. sxii. p. 486 (1900); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 197. S • Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous greyish tinged with red-brown; tarsi browner slightly ringed with white. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with pale red-brown; antemedial line rather diff'iised red-brown, slightly bent inwards to costa and incurved at vein 1; a small whitish discoidal lunule defined by red-brown ; postmedial line rather diffused red-brown, slightly. Fig. 172.—Narthecophora p^dverea, cj". \. excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold to reniform, strongly incurved below vein 4 and excurved at vein 1 ; subterminal line hardly traceable, brownish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and with brownish shade beyond it at apex. Hind wing ochreous white faintly tinged with red-brown; the underside suffused with rufous. Hah. , Arizona, Tucson (ScJnuarz), in Nat. Mus. Exp. 28 millim. Genus AZENIA. , Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 186 (1882) Type. implora Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, reaching to just beyond frontal process ; frons with rounded prominence with large tri- lobate corneous plate at middle and corneous plate below it with straight outer edge; eyes large, round; antennse of male typically laminate and minutely ciliated; tiiorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the a
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