. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3-52 KOCTtriB.^. 5538. Glaucicodia leucoiiephra, n. sp. 5 . Head and thorax white mixed with olive-green ; palpi white tinged with pinkish and banded with black ; antennae ringed with black ; tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed Avith white; abdomen grey tinged with pinkish and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing white suffused with olive-green and slightly irrorated with black; black points on base of costa and in cell near base ; subbasal line white, from costa to submedian fold followed by a diffused black band ; antemedial line
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3-52 KOCTtriB.^. 5538. Glaucicodia leucoiiephra, n. sp. 5 . Head and thorax white mixed with olive-green ; palpi white tinged with pinkish and banded with black ; antennae ringed with black ; tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed Avith white; abdomen grey tinged with pinkish and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing white suffused with olive-green and slightly irrorated with black; black points on base of costa and in cell near base ; subbasal line white, from costa to submedian fold followed by a diffused black band ; antemedial line blackish, double at costa, then slight, interrupted and defined by whitish on inner side, erect, waved; orbicular a minute round white spot defined by black ; reniform a white patch extending to costa, defined by black at sides and angled inwards. Fig. 107.—Glaucicodia IcicconejjJira, §. |. on median nervure ; an indistinct dentate black medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial line double, black filled in with whitish, minutely sinuous, oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it whitish except towards costa on which there are some white points ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by blackish, excurved below vein 7, excurved and waved at middle; an oblique black spot at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia chequered white and black. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous; cilia white and fuscous; the underside suffused with purplish pink, a black discoidal spot, slight postmedial line excurved at middle, and traces of subterminal line with blackish mark at discal fold. Hab. Cuba, Baracoa (Schaus), 1 $ type. Exjp. 24 millim. Genus PARACODIA, nov. Type, P. piiella. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint renching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3i-d moderate; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below
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