. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SCODIONTX. 285 Genus SCODIONYX. Scodionyx, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 397 (1899) Type. mystica. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; ejes large, rounded ; antennee of male bipectinate with long branches to apex; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; fore tibiae short with strong curved claw on inner side; mid tibiae spined; hind tibiae with a few spines between medial and terminal spurs; abdomen with some rough hair at base but with
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SCODIONTX. 285 Genus SCODIONYX. Scodionyx, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 397 (1899) Type. mystica. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; ejes large, rounded ; antennee of male bipectinate with long branches to apex; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; fore tibiae short with strong curved claw on inner side; mid tibiae spined; hind tibiae with a few spines between medial and terminal spurs; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing broad, the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *8091. Scodionyx mystica. Scodionyx mysticus, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 397, pi. 5. f. 2 (1899); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 355. c?. Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous slightly tinged with rufous; subbasal line represented by a slight brown striga from costa ; antemedial line represented by a brown striga from costa, then ahnost obsolete, curved and slightly waved;. Fig. €9.—Scodionyx mystica, c?. \. claviform and orbicular absent; reniform pale brownish, rather quadrate and with its lower extremity produced; postmedial line indistinct, brownish, very minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then slightly incurved; subterminal line pale slightly defined by brown on each side, minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, the costal area beyond it with a slight brownish tinge ; a slight waved red-brown terminal line. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area very faintly tinged with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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