. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 213 Genus PULCHERIA. Pulcheria, Alph. Slett. enfc. Zeifc. 1887, p. 170 Tvpe. catomelas. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; aiitennse of male bipeutinate with moderate branches, the apex simple ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax with sharp triangular crest; the metathorax without crest; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with d
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 213 Genus PULCHERIA. Pulcheria, Alph. Slett. enfc. Zeifc. 1887, p. 170 Tvpe. catomelas. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd short, porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; aiitennse of male bipeutinate with moderate branches, the apex simple ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax with sharp triangular crest; the metathorax without crest; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments and literal tufts of hair on terminal segments. Fore wing with the apex rect- angular, the termeii crenulate, oblique towards tornus; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- tomosing with the cell near base only. 3825. Pulcheria catomelas. P^dchcria catomelas, k\Y>\\. HiM: ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 170; id. Rom. M6m. V. p. 173, pi. 7. ff. 10, a, b; Staid. Cat Lep. pal. p. 212. J. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with some brown, the last dorsally tinged with fuscous leaving faint pale segmental lines. Pore wing whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line indistinctlj' double, angled outwards in and below cell and eiidin^j at submedian fold ; aiitemedial line indistinctly double and somewhat dentate, oblique from costa to middle of cell, then. Fig. 42.—Pulcheria catomelas, <$. \. inwardly oblique ; orbicular with faint whitish aunulu.^!, its centre tinged with fuscous, oblique elliptical; reniform slightly defined by fuscous and with fuscous line in centre, an indistinct medial shade, oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved,
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