. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 4G8 xoctutd-t;. area brownish ; the uiulerside 'with Ihc veins and marginal areas irrorated Avith brown, a dark disooidal lunule. Jlal>. Bolivia, Tacora, 12,000 feet, type f in Mus. Berlin. Exp. 30 millini. 1815. Strigania calligrapta. lieitria caUlgrapta, Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 118. (S. Head and thorax ochreous with some black scales; abdomen ochreous irrorated with dark brown. Foro wing ochreous, irrorated and largely suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line represented by ochreous strias from costa an
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 4G8 xoctutd-t;. area brownish ; the uiulerside 'with Ihc veins and marginal areas irrorated Avith brown, a dark disooidal lunule. Jlal>. Bolivia, Tacora, 12,000 feet, type f in Mus. Berlin. Exp. 30 millini. 1815. Strigania calligrapta. lieitria caUlgrapta, Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 118. (S. Head and thorax ochreous with some black scales; abdomen ochreous irrorated with dark brown. Foro wing ochreous, irrorated and largely suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line represented by ochreous strias from costa and cell, tlie former defined on inner side, the latter on both sides by black; ajitemedial line double, dark brown filled in with ochreous, angled outwards below costa, oblique below cell, and strongly bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform well-developed, reddish brown defined by dark brown and. with an ochreous patch between it and postmedial line; orbicular and reniform with reddish centres and oclireous annuli defined by- dark brown, the former very oblique elliptical, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double, filled in with ochreous, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, ex- curved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa; the veins with slight dark streaks defined by ochreous, the median nervure and veins 6, 4, 3, 1 on postmedial area more strongly defined, those on each side of veins 4, 3 indenting the ochreous subterminal line, which is angled outwards at vein 7, defined on inner side by some dentate dark marks extending to its outer side at middle ; a terminalj^series of small dark lunules ; cilia ochreous, with a red-brown line through them. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, especially on terminal half; cilia ochreous, with a red-brown line through them; the underside ochreous irrorated with brown, a dark discoidai bar. Hah. Chili {Edmonds), 1 J type. Exp. 3G millim. Genus GRAPHANIA, nov. Type
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