. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 298 KOCTUID^. Sect. I. {Moepa.) Antennre of male bipectinate with short branches encling in fasciculate cilia, the branches shorter on lower side, the apex simple ; the fore tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid tibiae with tuft of long hair above from base, the hind tibiaB with slight tufts of hair at middle and extremity; underside of hind wing without androconia or woolly hair. 8109. Pericyma albidens. Moepa albidens, Wlk. xxxiii. 916 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 476. (S. Head and thorax red-brown mixe
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 298 KOCTUID^. Sect. I. {Moepa.) Antennre of male bipectinate with short branches encling in fasciculate cilia, the branches shorter on lower side, the apex simple ; the fore tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid tibiae with tuft of long hair above from base, the hind tibiaB with slight tufts of hair at middle and extremity; underside of hind wing without androconia or woolly hair. 8109. Pericyma albidens. Moepa albidens, Wlk. xxxiii. 916 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 476. (S. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and some grey, the tegulse with black medial line; palpi white in front; pectus white ; legs whitish mixed with black-brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the crests blackish, the ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish brown suffused in parts with fuscous, the antemedial area darker; subbasal line black, Avaved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, black, sinuous; the medial area with ti-aces of three double sinuous. Fig. 73.âPericyma albidens, c? â lines, the third excurved beyond the cell; reniform slightly defined by black and wdth some white scales on its outer edge, somewhat constricted at middle ; a black patch in submedian interspace before the postmedial line, which is black, oblique, and sinuous to vein 6, angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then oblique and dentate, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, slightly defined on each side by brown and with a series of black points on it forming slight dentate marks below costa, oblique, sinuous, a dark patch beyond it at middle ; a dentate black line before termen and a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown except at apex ; traces of a double slightly sinuous antemedial line and of three Hnes beyond the cell from discal fold to inner
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