. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. IS0RR0PU3. CHKYSORABDIA. 183 to inner margin, its outer edge escurved below middle. Hind wing orange, with broad termiaal black band narrowing to tornns. Hah. AIvDAGAscAR, Fianaraubsja {Gowan), 2 $, type. Exp. 38 millim. Genus CHRY30RABDIA. Type. Chrysorahiia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357 vindata. Proboscis present; palpi obliquely upturned, extending to just beyond Irons; antennte of inile ciliated; tibiie wicli the spurs moderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Pore wiug long and narrow; vein 2 from before middle of


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. IS0RR0PU3. CHKYSORABDIA. 183 to inner margin, its outer edge escurved below middle. Hind wing orange, with broad termiaal black band narrowing to tornns. Hah. AIvDAGAscAR, Fianaraubsja {Gowan), 2 $, type. Exp. 38 millim. Genus CHRY30RABDIA. Type. Chrysorahiia, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 357 vindata. Proboscis present; palpi obliquely upturned, extending to just beyond Irons; antennte of inile ciliated; tibiie wicli the spurs moderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Pore wiug long and narrow; vein 2 from before middle of cell, curved at base; 'i, 4 from angle ; 5 absent; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomo^iug with 7,8 to form the areole; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from midillo of cell; 3,4 stalkal or from cell; 5 abseut; the disco- cellulars almost entirely aborted and the cell open, a recurrent vein in cell from angle of discocellulai's; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 from before middle of cell. Sect. I. Fore wiug of male with an oblique patch of androconia oa vein 1 almost met by an oblique streak from end of cell; hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. A. Thorax black virldata. B. Thorax yellow bivitta. 377. Chrysorablia virldata. Lithosia vindata, Wlk. xxxi. 225 (1864); Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 19, pi. 2. f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 74 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337. Gnophria strigata, Moschl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 353 (1872). S • Head and tegute yellow ; palpi, frons, and antennae black ; patagia yellow edged with black ; thorax black; abdomen yellow, the dorsnm greyish. Fore wing yel- low, the costa, a broad fascia below costa expanding towards termeu, and another on vein 1 narrow at base and narrowing to termen, Fig. 101. blackish with metallic green on Chrysorabdia viridrda, $. \. them at base and beyond the (From Moths Ind. vol. li.) q^^j-^^,,^ f^g^^us streaks of andro- conia. Hind wing pale yellow. 5 . Anal tuft blackish at base. Fore wing with a greenish-black fascia on costa na


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