. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CARCHAEOBA. CnAMAKCLEA. 211 Genus CARCHARODA, nov. Type, C. flavirosca. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2ud joint reaebing to middle of Irons, the Srd moderate, porrect; frons with trilobate corneous plate, the middle lobe longest and a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna' of male laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rour,ded, the termeu evenly curved and not crenula
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CARCHAEOBA. CnAMAKCLEA. 211 Genus CARCHARODA, nov. Type, C. flavirosca. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2ud joint reaebing to middle of Irons, the Srd moderate, porrect; frons with trilobate corneous plate, the middle lobe longest and a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna' of male laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rour,ded, the termeu evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 0 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 very shortly stalked; 8 aiuistomosing with ihe cell near base only. 4577. Carcharoda flavirosea, n. sp. S . Head and tegulge ochreous yellow mixed with some crimson; thorax crimson; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing ochreous yellow; the basal costal area crimson ; a slight crimson streak above base of vein 1 ; a slight brownish discoidal spot; the veins from end of cell to near termen streaked with crimson ; an oblique crimson shade from costa above end of cell to. Fig. 7(>.â Carcharoda Uavi vein 6 ; postmedial line crimson, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; a slight brownish subterminal line with some crimson befoie it on costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, incurved below vein 3. Hind wing ochreous yellow. Hah. Br. E. Africa, Mombasa (ChohnIe>j), 1 J type. ). 18 millim. Genus CHAMAECLEA. Type. Chainacclca, Grote, Can. Eut. xv. p. 7*-) (1883) â peruana. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender and reaching to vertex of head ; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges and vertical ridge across it; antenna; of male minutely ciliated and somewhat laminate; thorax and abdome
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