. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3S6 NocrriDiK. 6713. Aquis viridisquama. Aqttis viridisquama, Wlk. xv. 1G52 (ISHS). Dimirica nuhifera, Wlk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 56 (1864). Aquis alhosparsa, "Wlk. .\xxii. 611 (1865). Head and thorax white mixed with dark red-brown ; tegiilae with white lines at middle and tips; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown with some white at base. Fore wing dark red- brown irrorated with raised white scales and with patches of whito especially on basal area and postmedial costal area ; antemedial line ill-defined,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3S6 NocrriDiK. 6713. Aquis viridisquama. Aqttis viridisquama, Wlk. xv. 1G52 (ISHS). Dimirica nuhifera, Wlk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 56 (1864). Aquis alhosparsa, "Wlk. .\xxii. 611 (1865). Head and thorax white mixed with dark red-brown ; tegiilae with white lines at middle and tips; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown with some white at base. Fore wing dark red- brown irrorated with raised white scales and with patches of whito especially on basal area and postmedial costal area ; antemedial line ill-defined, brown, waved, from below costa to inner margin, a white band on its inner side ; tufts of raised scales at middle of. Fig. 146.—Jquis viridisquama, (^. }. cell and upper angle; postmedial line brown, traversing the white patch on costal area, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved below vein 7, incurved and minutely waved below vein 4; some white points on costa towards apex; subterminal line brown defined on outer side by slight white spots, angled outwards below vein 7, then slightly waved; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing dark red-brown. Hah. Selangoe, Semangho (Bohinson), 1 c? ; Singapore (Eidlej/), 2 c? ; BoENEO, Sarawak (Wallace), 4 c^ type and type nuhifera, Kuching (Shelford), 1 6 ', Java {Horsfeld), 1 $ type aJhosjMrsa. Exp. 26-34 miUim. 6714. Aquis aquisoides. (Plate CLXXXJV. fig. 22.) I^anoguna aquisoides, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 156 (1905). Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; tegulse brown at base, white at tips; tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen brown with faint pale segmental lines. Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated with raised silvery scales, the basal area from costa to vein 1 and the postmedial area from costa to discal fold brownish white ; subhasal line represented by a brownish striga from costa; antemedial line brown, sinuous, from cell to inner margin; some dark points on medial part of costa ; tufts of raised scales
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