. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ^â - Fig. 23. â Gerocla cui-nifera, (S. \. the underside whitish ting:ed and irrorated with red, a black dis- coidal luniile, curved dentate postmcdial line, and terminal series of striic from apex to vein -i, Uab. ignotus (? Brazil), 1 S ^JV^- â ^â¢'^>- '"^4 milliin. *4414. Geroda excisa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 17.) Maca2)ta excisa, D. Jones, Trans. Eut. See. 190S, p. LIO. S. Head and thorax bright rufous, some of tlie scales tipped with white, pectus and legs with grey mixed ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing wit
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ^â - Fig. 23. â Gerocla cui-nifera, (S. \. the underside whitish ting:ed and irrorated with red, a black dis- coidal luniile, curved dentate postmcdial line, and terminal series of striic from apex to vein -i, Uab. ignotus (? Brazil), 1 S ^JV^- â ^â¢'^>- '"^4 milliin. *4414. Geroda excisa. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 17.) Maca2)ta excisa, D. Jones, Trans. Eut. See. 190S, p. LIO. S. Head and thorax bright rufous, some of tlie scales tipped with white, pectus and legs with grey mixed ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing with the tcrnien slightly cxcurved at middle ; rufous tinged with grey especially on costal area and slightly irrorated with fuscous, the costa with series of minute white streaks ; a subbasal white point in cell; antemedial line fuscous, oblique, very slightly waved, bent inwards to inner margiu ; claviform and orbicular absent; reniform small with red- brown centre and white annnlus slightly defined Ity blackish ; post- medial line fuscous, very minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 7, cxcurved to vein 5, then incurved, a series of black points beyond it on the veins ; an indistinct dark subterminal line diffused on inner side, incurved below vein 3. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area whitish to beyond middle; cilia white; the underside whitish sulfused with rufous and irrorated with fuscous except on inner area, a slight dark discoidal spot and postmcdial dentate line produced to black points on the veins. Hah. Brazil, Jkhia in ^Mus. Oxon., Sao Paulo, type t in Coll. D. Jones. Eocp. 24 millim. *4415. Geroda leucocycla. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 18.) Geroda leucocycla, Dnioe, A. II. N. H. (8) iii. p. 4B0 (1909). 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright rufous; tarsi ringed with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resem
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