. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CARMARA, 233 Genus CARMARA. Type. Carmara, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 62 (1864) suhcervina. Zagira, Wlk. xxxv. 1637 (1866) suhcervina. Gyrognatha, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 134 (1893) suhcervina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and broadly fringed with hair ia front, and behind towards extremity, the 3rd joint minute and birried in the hair of 2nd joint, the extremity of the palpi appearing to be rounded ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennee of mal
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CARMARA, 233 Genus CARMARA. Type. Carmara, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 62 (1864) suhcervina. Zagira, Wlk. xxxv. 1637 (1866) suhcervina. Gyrognatha, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 134 (1893) suhcervina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and broadly fringed with hair ia front, and behind towards extremity, the 3rd joint minute and birried in the hair of 2nd joint, the extremity of the palpi appearing to be rounded ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennee of male with cilia and bristles; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore tibiae of male dilated and hollowed out forining a double chamber divided by a membranous wall, and clothed with long hair, the mid tibia fringed with long hair, the hind tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of ceil; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 5356. Carmara suhcervina. Carmara suhcervina, Wit. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 63 (1864^. Zagira acidaliaria, Wlk. xxxv. 1638 (1866); Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 347. Gyrognatha atriceps, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 134, pi. 168. f. 10 (1893). Head blackish; thorax and abdomen rufous, the latter with slight blackish segmental lines ; fore legs blackish in front. Pore wing pale brownish rufous with slight dark irroration; a slight brown antemedial line with black point at costa, somewhat ex- curved ; two black discoidal points ; traces of a brownish medial. Fig. 63.— Carmara suhcervina, c?. line excurved beyond the cell; postmedial line slight, brownish faintly defined on outer side by whi
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