. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. I'ArATriniA. "i 4380. Papaipema arctivorens, n. sp. (ri;ito CXXXVIII. fig. 21.) J lead niid thorax ])iii-ple iiiixod willi yellow ; antenna) with tho hiisal joint Avhitc; tcf>-ula) slightly edged with yellow behind ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the crests dark. Fore wing yellow irrorated witli bright rufous, the ])ostmedial area purplisli, the terminal area suffused with red-brown cxce])t at apex, the veins slightly streaked with brown, subbasal line rufous defined on outer side by slight yellow marks and with
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. I'ArATriniA. "i 4380. Papaipema arctivorens, n. sp. (ri;ito CXXXVIII. fig. 21.) J lead niid thorax ])iii-ple iiiixod willi yellow ; antenna) with tho hiisal joint Avhitc; tcf>-ula) slightly edged with yellow behind ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the crests dark. Fore wing yellow irrorated witli bright rufous, the ])ostmedial area purplisli, the terminal area suffused with red-brown cxce])t at apex, the veins slightly streaked with brown, subbasal line rufous defined on outer side by slight yellow marks and with yellow point beyond it in cell, sinuous, from eosta to submedian fold ; anlemedial line indistinct, inwardly oblique and sinuous to vein 1, then bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by two obliquely jjlaced white spots (IcHned by brown, the upper small ; orbicular small, elliptical, white defined by brown ; reniform with sinuous obli(iue yellow lino in centre defined by rufous, with curved white mark on inner edge above, wliite point below and two while jjoints beyond lower extremity; a slight sinuous rufous medial line, obli(]ue to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postuiodial lino double, the inner line indistinct and rufous except at cost a where it is filled in with yellow, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, erect to vein (5, then o])liquc, some whitish points beyond it on costa; a yellowish minutely waved subtorminal line, incurved below costa and defining the yellowish apical patch, excurved at middle ; cilia greyish brown. Hind wing ochreous white tinged Avilh rufous, tho veins brownish; a faint diffused subterminal brown band ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas suffused and irroiated with rufous; a slight discoidal line and curved postnu'dial line. llab. Oanaua, Montical (/)/yvZ). 1 (j". A'.ry;. lUi- 11 uiillim. Hix males and five females in Coll. IJird examined. Larva. Food-plants : ihird
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