. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 670 NOCTTJID.'E: black; reniform grey-white, open above, its outer edge excised; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, the outer line indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then in- wardly oblique, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line grey defined by black on inner side, angled out- wards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; a fine waved dark tei'minal line ; cilia. Fig. n3.—Puli/phisnis sitbseri
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 670 NOCTTJID.'E: black; reniform grey-white, open above, its outer edge excised; an indistinct waved medial line, oblique from costa to below cell ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, the outer line indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then in- wardly oblique, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line grey defined by black on inner side, angled out- wards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; a fine waved dark tei'minal line ; cilia. Fig. n3.—Puli/phisnis sitbsericata, c^. \. fuscous and grey with a whitish line at base. Hind wing blood- red with a black terminal band, broad at apex, narrowing to a point, at tornus, the termen with slight reddish marks except towards apex; cilia white with a series of fuscous poiuts ; the underside paler, the costal area white irrorated with brown, some white on termen. Bab. Ehodes ; Cyprus (Miss Bate), 1 6 ; Asia Minok, Pontus, Taurus. Ex2y. 48 millim. Sect. IV. {Trijjlicenopsis). Antennce of male ciliated. A. Palpi'with the 3rd joint very long and porrect. 3566. Polyphsenis pulcherrima. Epilecta pulcherrima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 54, pi. 6. f. 3; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 219. Folyphfenis largetaui, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 19, pi. viii. f. 4 (1881). Epilecta opuhnta, Bntl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 160. Head and thorax brown tinged with grey and mixed with olive- green ; palpi brown irrorated with whitish, whitish at base; tegula3 and patagia with olive-green patches; pectus and legs grey mixed with brown ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous leaving slight pale segmental lines, the crests dark, the anal tuft reddish ochreous with dark spot above. Fore wing black-brown mixed with olivcrgreen and some reddish ; subbasal line black defined by olive-green on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian fold : anternedial line black defined by green on inner side, oblique, waved ; orbicular green defined by bla
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