. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 14 ARCTIAD^. Genus IDALUS. Type. Em'pusa, Hiibn. Verz. p. 170 (1827); nee 111. Orth. (1798) admirohilis. Idalus, Wlk. iii. 645 (1855) admirahilis. Lampnma, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 231 rosea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, the •3rd joint minute ; antenna of male usually biserrate and fasciculate; tibi,se with the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at ba^e. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before an
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 14 ARCTIAD^. Genus IDALUS. Type. Em'pusa, Hiibn. Verz. p. 170 (1827); nee 111. Orth. (1798) admirohilis. Idalus, Wlk. iii. 645 (1855) admirahilis. Lampnma, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 231 rosea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head, the •3rd joint minute ; antenna of male usually biserrate and fasciculate; tibi,se with the spurs moderate ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at ba^e. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell •, 5 from or from above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from or from just before angle of cell; 4 absent; 6, 7 coincident. Sect. I. {Lamprima). Antenna; of male bipectinate. A. Hind wing of male with vein 8 shortly stalked with 7, of female strongly stalked. 1204. Idalus citraria. Idalus citrarius, Dogn. Le Nat. ser. 2, vol. iii. p. 173 (1889); id. Lep. Loja, p. 49, pi. 4. ff. 7, 8; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 198. (5. Sulphur-yellow ; palpi brown above, white below with some pink at sides; antennae brown; patagia edged with pale purplish. Fig. 4.—Idahis citraria, (^, \. -o-rev and pink above; tibiae and tarsi irrorated with brown; abdomen dorsally tinged with pink. Pore wing with a brownish point in end of cell; a purplish-grey fascia in submedian interspace from near base to the postmedial band, which is oblique from costa before apex to the fascia, then bent outwards to tornus ; both the fascia and band are edged with pink and the latter is intersected by the pink veins and is dentate on outer side. -Hind wing yellowish white, the inner area tinged with pink. 5 . Without the purplish and pink edges to patagia; abdomen without pink on dorsum: fore wing with brown points in and below middle of cell; the fascia absent, the postmedial band reduced to a series of points ; traces of a subterminal se
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