. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 228 NOCTl' Genus SYNCALAMA, nov. Type, 5. mintica. Proboscis aborted, mimito ; palpi porreet, liiirdlj' extending as far as frons and fringed willi lonp liair below ; frons with large round corneous prominence with niised edges and short central process hollowed out in front ; a trilobate corneous jilate below it; eves large, round ; antenna? of male serrate ; thorax clollied witli rough hair and liair-like scales and witiiout crests; tibijc moder- atelj fringed with liair ; abdomen witii dorsal crest at base only. Fore wi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 228 NOCTl' Genus SYNCALAMA, nov. Type, 5. mintica. Proboscis aborted, mimito ; palpi porreet, liiirdlj' extending as far as frons and fringed willi lonp liair below ; frons with large round corneous prominence with niised edges and short central process hollowed out in front ; a trilobate corneous jilate below it; eves large, round ; antenna? of male serrate ; thorax clollied witli rough hair and liair-like scales and witiiout crests; tibijc moder- atelj fringed with liair ; abdomen witii dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing â with the apex rounded, tlie termen evenly curved and elightly orenulate ; veins 3 and T) from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 'J from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from up])er angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4602. Syncalama luimica, n. sp. cT. Head fuid thorax oehrcoiis mixed with brown ; antennae red-brown; upper edge of patagia and metathorax with some blackish scales; abdomen pale ochreons dorsaily suffused with brown. Fore wiiip: ochreons yellow suffused in parts with brown, especially on inner basal area, in and beyond cell, and on postmedial area ; subbasal line represented by slight black stria? from costa and coll; traces of a black streak below base of cell; antemedial line rather ill-de"fined, black, oblique, waved ; claviform huge, rather incompletely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, yellow. ^%f Fig. 89.âiSjjncalama mimica, S- \- defined by black, the former round, the latter open above and rather constricted at middle ; an indistinct waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown, rather ill-defined, excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique ; subter- minal lino hardly defined except by the constrast between the rufous and yellow areas, wave
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