. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 796 NOCTTTIDiE. ADDENDA and CORRIGENDA. 5009. ArsBoptera obliquifascia, de Joan, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1910, p. 201. 5024 a. ProroWemma polystriga, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIV. fig. 4.) 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mottled with, brown, the head and thorax tinged with purplish pink ; tarsi riaged with white. Fore wing whitish suffused with purplish pink and thickly striated with brown, irrorated with a few silvery scales ; a slight pale dis- coidal spot; postmedial line dark defined on outer side by whitish, excurved below costa
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 796 NOCTTTIDiE. ADDENDA and CORRIGENDA. 5009. ArsBoptera obliquifascia, de Joan, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1910, p. 201. 5024 a. ProroWemma polystriga, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIV. fig. 4.) 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mottled with, brown, the head and thorax tinged with purplish pink ; tarsi riaged with white. Fore wing whitish suffused with purplish pink and thickly striated with brown, irrorated with a few silvery scales ; a slight pale dis- coidal spot; postmedial line dark defined on outer side by whitish, excurved below costa and very obliquely curved below vein 4; an indistinct double dark subterminal line, ending on termen above tornus; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish suff'used with pale brown ; a terminal series of black points; the underside white slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hah. W. Colombia, 1 $ type. Exp. 22 millim. Genus TROGOBLEMMA, nov. Type, T. amitalh. Proboscis absent; palpi porrect, extending about twice tbe length of head, triangularly fringed with scales above, moderately below, the 3rd joint short; frons smooth with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antenniB of male with long cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiie slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the costa highly arched towards apex which is produced and acute, the termen strongly excised below apex and angled at vein 4, then oblique; veins 3 and 4 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle ; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. *5024 h. Trogoblemma acutalis. Sorygaza acutalis, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xsx. p. 121 (1906). S . Head whitish, the palpi pale rufous ; thorax dorsally whitish,. Fig. 212
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