. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EULYJINIA. ]11 Genus EULYMNIA, nov. Type, E. pulchcrrima. Pruboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, hardly reaching middle of frona and smoothly scaled ; f'rons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male simple, laminate ; thorax clothed entirely with scales and without crests ; tibi;« slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and non-crenulate ; the inner margin somewhat lobed at base and excised towards tornus, which is slightly
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EULYJINIA. ]11 Genus EULYMNIA, nov. Type, E. pulchcrrima. Pruboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, hardly reaching middle of frona and smoothly scaled ; f'rons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male simple, laminate ; thorax clothed entirely with scales and without crests ; tibi;« slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and non-crenulate ; the inner margin somewhat lobed at base and excised towards tornus, which is slightly hooked ; yeins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell to near middle. 4442, Eulymnia pulcherrima. Cunservula pulcherrima, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 295 (1902). S. Head, tegulfe, upper edge of patagia, prothorax, and mefa- thorax behind clothed with ochreous and chocolate-red scales, the rest of patagia and thorax violaceous grey ; palpi white, red at tips : antennae with the basal joint white behind ; pectus and legs white, the fore legs red-brown in front, the tarsi red-brown ringed with W'bite; abdomen grey with slight white segmental rings, the. Fig. 30.—Kidijmnia pidclicrrima, t?. basal crest chocolate-red, the anal tuft tinged with rufous, Ihe ventral surface white. Fore wing violaceous grey, the basal half to vein 1 ochreous irrorated with chocolate-red, more thickly below the cell, the veins streaked with red; an ochreous patch irrorated with red and with red streaks on. the veins and two small white spots on its outer edge on costal area towards apex ; subbasal lino double, red, slightly waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- medial line double, red, angled outwards below costa and cell, then incurved, bent inwards and blackish abo
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