. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. LICNOrTEEA. 333 Sect. I. {Liawptera). Antennre of male ciliated ; bind wing with the costal area greatly expanded, the apex truncate, veins C, 7 divergina: widely from their fork, the inner margin with a fold with a tuft of long hair in it. *703. Licnoptera crocodora. Licnopteracrocodora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 18S9, p. 461; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. pp. 807, 342. S . Head and tegular golden yellow; palpi and antenna) brownish; thorax purple, with yellow patch on mesothorax ; legs whitish ; fore tibia) and tarsi pure white with fuscous
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. LICNOrTEEA. 333 Sect. I. {Liawptera). Antennre of male ciliated ; bind wing with the costal area greatly expanded, the apex truncate, veins C, 7 divergina: widely from their fork, the inner margin with a fold with a tuft of long hair in it. *703. Licnoptera crocodora. Licnopteracrocodora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 18S9, p. 461; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. pp. 807, 342. S . Head and tegular golden yellow; palpi and antenna) brownish; thorax purple, with yellow patch on mesothorax ; legs whitish ; fore tibia) and tarsi pure white with fuscous rings; (abdomen wanting). Fore wing golden yellow ; the base purple, with minutely waved oblique outer edge; the terminal area purple- brown, with minutely waved and curved black line on its inner side,. Fig. 233.—Licnopteracrocodora, ($. \, and a large yellow patch on it from apex to vein 4 edged by a minutely waved black line ; a terminal white line interrupted in places. Hind wing whitish, with the terminal area from vein 3 to tornus broadly suffused with pale brown ; the fringe of hair on inner area fulvous. Hah. N. Guinea {Sayer), type f cJ in Coll, Meyrick. Exj). 20 millim. Sect. II. (Goniosema). Antennre of male bipectinate; hind wing normal, *704. Licnoptera anguliscripta. (Plate XXYIII. fig, 2.) Chiriphe avguliscripta, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 1S79 (1890); Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 348. 5 . Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi and antenna) black, the latter whitish towards tips ; thorax tinged with black and with a black band behind teguloe; legs with fuscous streaks ; abdomen fuscous, with fulvous anal tuft. Fore wing yellowish white; a black patch at base of costa produced to points on lower and outer sides; the antemedial line represented by two oblique conjoined spots below costa, a strongly incurved mark in submedian interspace and a spot above inner margin; a medial line strongly excurved in cell and incurved in submedian interspace, and conjoined
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