. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 234 KOCXUID^. Genus CATABENA. Type. Calahena, Wlk. xxxii. G31 (1865) luieolata. Turbula, Wlk. Char. Undesor. Het. p. 26 (1869) lineolata. Adijpsophanes, Grrote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. tici. i. p. 181 (1873)... lineolata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth; ejes large, round ; aatenn;e of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the togulse produced to a slight dorsal ridge and hood behind, the p
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 234 KOCXUID^. Genus CATABENA. Type. Calahena, Wlk. xxxii. G31 (1865) luieolata. Turbula, Wlk. Char. Undesor. Het. p. 26 (1869) lineolata. Adijpsophanes, Grrote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. tici. i. p. 181 (1873)... lineolata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth; ejes large, round ; aatenn;e of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the togulse produced to a slight dorsal ridge and hood behind, the pro-and metathorax with slight spreading crests; tibiie fringed with long hair on outer side at base ; build slender; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the teruien obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 0 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from middle of d'scocellulars, almost obsolete; G, 7 very shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. a. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a minute whitish spot csula. b. Fore wing with the reniform absent. «!. Foi-c wing with the orbicular represented by a slight white si;reak defined by black lineolata. hi. Fore wing with the orbicular absent vitriiia. B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell terens. 3852. Catabena esula. X>/lina esula, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 297, pi. 28. f. 1 (1889). Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white; frons black; tegulae with strong black lines at base and middle and slight fuscous line near tips; fore tibiae and mid tibia? towards base black on outer side; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the. ^>=^-c- — Catuhena esula, (^. \.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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