. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. HILLIA.— CAFFRISTIS. 227 (Bamston), 1 5 , Labrador, Ontario, Alberta, Calgary {WoHey-Bo(l\ 1 c?>2 5; , Maine, Orono, 1 $ type vigilcois, jSTew York, Lewis Co. (7F. W. Hill), 1 5 type senescens; Sweden; Lapland; hab. ign. 1 $ type semisigna. Exjp. 34-38 millim. Genus CAFFEISTIS, nov. Type, C. ferrogrisca. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair in front, the Srd joint short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, i-ounded ; antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches, the apical part serra
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. HILLIA.— CAFFRISTIS. 227 (Bamston), 1 5 , Labrador, Ontario, Alberta, Calgary {WoHey-Bo(l\ 1 c?>2 5; , Maine, Orono, 1 $ type vigilcois, jSTew York, Lewis Co. (7F. W. Hill), 1 5 type senescens; Sweden; Lapland; hab. ign. 1 $ type semisigna. Exjp. 34-38 millim. Genus CAFFEISTIS, nov. Type, C. ferrogrisca. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair in front, the Srd joint short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, i-ounded ; antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches, the apical part serrate ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the nietathorax with spreading crest; pectus and tibijB clothed with long hair; abdomen w^ith some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex some- wliat produced, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; .5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 2375. Caffristis ferrogrisea. Heliophobusferrogrisea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 442 (1902). S. Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous; tegulse with dark lines at middle and near tips; abdomen grey tinged with reddish brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and tiuged with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, waved, somewhat oblique;. Fig. 1 \.—Caffristis ferrogrisea, (^, \. orbicular a small dark spot; reniform a small dark lunule ; post- medial line black at costa, then obsolescent, excurved to vein 4, then incurved to lower angle of cell and minutely waved to inner margin ; sub terminal line very indistinct, dark, slightly sinuous ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; a slight brow
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