. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. II. EM A. 489 at tips; antennae brownish; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white. Wings uniform chalky white. Under- side of fore wing suffused wirh brown. $ . Nearly pure white. Hab. Formosa, Arizan (Wileman), 3 $. Exp. 40 millim. Type t 6, $ in Coll. Wileman. *285 b. Ilema pulverosa. (Plate XLI. fig. 37.) Eilema pulverosa, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 34 (1904). Fore wing of male entirely clothed on upper side with rough hairy scales. 6 â Head and thorax orange tinged with brown ; pectus and legs br
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. II. EM A. 489 at tips; antennae brownish; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white. Wings uniform chalky white. Under- side of fore wing suffused wirh brown. $ . Nearly pure white. Hab. Formosa, Arizan (Wileman), 3 $. Exp. 40 millim. Type t 6, $ in Coll. Wileman. *285 b. Ilema pulverosa. (Plate XLI. fig. 37.) Eilema pulverosa, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 34 (1904). Fore wing of male entirely clothed on upper side with rough hairy scales. 6 â Head and thorax orange tinged with brown ; pectus and legs brownish ; abdomen brown, the extremity and ventral surface yellow. Fore wing fulvous orange, the apical area slightly paler. Hind wing pale orange-yellow. Underside of fore wing with fuscous suffusion on basal area except at costa. Hab. W. Africa, Cameroons, type f J in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 22 millim. *285 c. Ilema triplaiola. Ilema triplaiola, , A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 535 (1911). Ilema malanga, , A. H. (8) vii. p. 535 (1911). Ilema vmistrigata, , A. M. N. H. (S) vii. p. 535 (1911). Ilema bisticta, , A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 5(3G (1911). Fore wing of male with the medial area obliquely clothed with rough androconia. 6 â Head and thorax fulvous yellow; tibia? and tarsi brown in front ; abdomen fulvous yellow, greyish towards base of Fig. 107.âIlema triplaiola, $, \. Fore wing fulvous yellow, the androconia on medial area more rufous; a blackish diseoidal spot and medial spot in submedian fold with traces of a line from below costa to the upper spot and from the lower spot to inner margin. Hind wing pale yellow ; the under- side with the costal area tinged witli rufous. 2 . bore wing yellower with faint rufous tinge ; the medial line fuscous, entire from costa to inner margin, oblique between the two Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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