. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. (J ABCTIAD^. scaled; maxillary palpi minute; frons with tuft of scales; antenuiE with tuft of scales on basal joint; tibiic with the spurs well developed. Fore wing triangular; vein ',i from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; fi from below upper angle ; 7 and S stalked; 9, 10 absent; 11 oblique. Hind wing with vein y from angle of cell; 4 absent; 5 from middle of discocellulars or well above angle ; G, 7 stalked, rarely from cell; 8 from middle of cell. Sect. I. Antenna; of male pectinated. A. {Dcitaptcrum). Fore wing of


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. (J ABCTIAD^. scaled; maxillary palpi minute; frons with tuft of scales; antenuiE with tuft of scales on basal joint; tibiic with the spurs well developed. Fore wing triangular; vein ',i from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; fi from below upper angle ; 7 and S stalked; 9, 10 absent; 11 oblique. Hind wing with vein y from angle of cell; 4 absent; 5 from middle of discocellulars or well above angle ; G, 7 stalked, rarely from cell; 8 from middle of cell. Sect. I. Antenna; of male pectinated. A. {Dcitaptcrum). Fore wing of male with elongate foveal depression in cell; iiind wing witb fold on inner area containing a tuft of hair, the toruus produced to a point. *3. Celaina peguensis. Deltapterum peguense, Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 138 (1894). S. Head, thorax, and abdomen white, irrorated with brown and fuscous. Fore wing ochroous white, irrorated with i'uscous; the tufts of scales near base and at middle and end of cell small; black points on basal half of costa and a i^w ^NxT^^---^ .^jf subbasal point; an indistinct curved ^' antemedial line from cell to inner margin ; a postmedial series of black CclamapcgLiks, S- I- 1'°'''^' ^^^^^ ^^^°^ ^^'^^ ,^°J"" ^' (From Moths Ind. vol, ii.) where it is incurved and becomes more continuous; an irregularly dentate subterminal line. Hind wing white, the termeu tinged with brown. Hah. BuKMA, E. Pegu, 4000 ft. (Doherty), 1 J type t in Coll. Elwes. £ay. 20 millim. B. {Celama). Wings of male normal. a. Fore wing with broad black medial band angled at middle and conjoined to a wedge-shaped patch on terminal area. a}. Fore wing with the medial band arising from base of costa lativittata. h^. Fore wing with the medial baud arising from costa near middle tesselata. b. Fore wing red-brown from near base to the subterminal line ruja ($). c. Fore wing with brown band on inner side of post- medial line Candida. d. Fore wing with medial black band confluent


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