. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CATA3JECTA. 543 4275. Catamecia minima. (Plate CXXXYI. fig. 20.) Jpamea minima, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 410; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 248. Caiamecia bacherl, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213 (1901). S â Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with brown ; subbasal line represented by slight black marks below costa and cell; line blackish defined by ochreous on inner side, slightly excurved below costa, then some- what sinuo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CATA3JECTA. 543 4275. Catamecia minima. (Plate CXXXYI. fig. 20.) Jpamea minima, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 410; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 248. Caiamecia bacherl, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213 (1901). S â Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with brown ; subbasal line represented by slight black marks below costa and cell; line blackish defined by ochreous on inner side, slightly excurved below costa, then some- what sinuous ; claviform moderate, filled in with black-brown ; orbicular and reniform small, ochreous slightly defined by blackish, the former round, the latter narrow and angled inwards on median nervure, a diff'used dark shade between and beyond them ; post- medial line defined by ochreous on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous defined on inner side by small dentate blackish marks below costa and at middle, somewhat excurved below costa and at middle and angled inwards at vein 2; a terminal series of slight black striae ; cilia brown intersected with ochreous. Hind wing white with fine dark terminal line; the underside with the costal area irrorated with pale brown, a brown discoidal lunule and traces of a diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 2. Hah. Palestine, Jordan, 1 S\ -Aden {Yerlury), 1 S'-, Peesian Gtjlf, Fao {Cuming), 1 d"; Punjab, Lahore {Harford), 2 c?; SiND, Karachi {Sivinhoe), 1 d, Hyderabad {Sivinhoe), 1 c?, Kipra {SivinJioe), 1 S type. Exp. 20-22 millim. 4276. Catamecia jordana. Catamecia jordana, Staud. Iris, x. p. 288, pi. 4. f. 23 (1897); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. Catamecia mauretanica, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213 (1901). S. Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly irrorated with.
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