. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. i364 SYNTOMID^. from segment 3 to anal tuft: wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black ; fore wing with quadrate discoidal spot. Hah. C'AYiJXXE. A'i;^9. 21 millim. This S2)3cies is unknown to me. 804. Desmidocnemis platyleuca. Glaiwopis platyleuca, Wlk. i. 198 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 35, pi. 13. f. 2; Kiibj, Oat. Het. p. 148. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; frons edged with grey ; antenna3 white at tips ; patagia slightly edged with yellowish; palpi, thorax, and abdomen white below ; wings hyaline, the veins
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. i364 SYNTOMID^. from segment 3 to anal tuft: wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black ; fore wing with quadrate discoidal spot. Hah. C'AYiJXXE. A'i;^9. 21 millim. This S2)3cies is unknown to me. 804. Desmidocnemis platyleuca. Glaiwopis platyleuca, Wlk. i. 198 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 35, pi. 13. f. 2; Kiibj, Oat. Het. p. 148. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; frons edged with grey ; antenna3 white at tips ; patagia slightly edged with yellowish; palpi, thorax, and abdomen white below ; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins narrowl}', black. Eore wing with the black Fig i74_ on inner margin broadening Desmidocnemis'platyleuca. ff. J. slightly to base. Hind wing with the costa white, with a black fascia below it beyond end of cell. Hah. Venezuela, 1 S type. Exp. 24 millim. Genus DIPTILON. iype. Diptilon, Prittw. Stett. eat. Zeit. xxxi. p. 349 (1870) ... tclamjonwpharum. Proboscis well developed : palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; antenme of male bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle ; tibiae witb tbe spurs moderate ; abdomen with lateral tubercles lo 1st segment. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just below middle of discocellulars; G from upper angle ; 7, S, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing very narrow, with the cell very long; vein 2 from before angle of cell; 3 aud 5 separate at origin ; 4 absent; 0, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. Hind wing very minute and distorted with a costal fold, and the inner area forming a long laminate folded process containing tufts of hair and separate almost from base. A. Tarsi and veins of underside of fore wing orange-red. telanionaphorum. B. Tarsi and veins of underside of fore wing brown ... halterata. 805. Diptilon telamonaphorum. Diptilon telamonaphorum, Prittw. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxi. p. 350, pi. 2. f. 2 a-d (1870); Kirby, Cat. Het.
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