. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 802 Cenus CROCODETA, nov. Type, C. variegata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to beyond the frons", slender ; antennae of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs long. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell; 3 from before angle ; 5 absent ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident; 5 absent; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; S from middle of cell.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 802 Cenus CROCODETA, nov. Type, C. variegata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to beyond the frons", slender ; antennae of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs long. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell; 3 from before angle ; 5 absent ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident; 5 absent; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; S from middle of cell. In key differs from Chlorogenia in the fore wing having vein 9 stalked with 10. *1134/. Crocodeta variegata. Niulitria variegata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 220 (1913). 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white; antennae and palpi tinged with yellow; legs tinged with yellow, the fore tibiae with dark ring at extremities. Fore wing creamy white ; a slight fulvous yellow mark at base of costa; a fulvous yellow subbasal bar from costa to median nervure on which it is conjoined by a bar. Fig. 264.—Crocodeta variegata, $ . f. to the rather diffused and somewhat oblique narrow fulvous yellow antemedial band; an oblique fulvous yellow postmedial baud; a fulvous yellow subterminal band, oblique from eosta near apex to just beyond the postmedial band at vein 7, then excurved, con- nected with the postmedial band at vein 4 and ending on termen above tonius. Hind wing white tinged with fulvous yellow. Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Kumusi \i. {Meek), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 10 millim. Genus EM0MASTYX. Type. Eriomastyx, Roths. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 469 (1905) lata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi minute, porrect, clothed with long hair ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with rough hair ; antennae ciliated, the basal joint extremely long and clothed with rough hair ; fore tibiae of male educed, the tarsi long and thin ; mid tibiae fringed with long hair on outer. Please note that these im
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