. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 208 T^OCTTTID^. anteiiniB of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apes produced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle, not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of disaocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 an
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 208 T^OCTTTID^. anteiiniB of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apes produced and acute, the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle, not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of disaocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5321. Metacausta ustata. Tathoclelta ustata, Hrapsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 448 (1897). S. Head black-brown with some rufous on vertex ; thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; fore and mid legs in front and the tarsi suffused with dark brown : abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the terminal half dorsally dark brown. Fore wing ochreous. Fig. 49. —Metacausta ustata, c?. |. tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the costal, inner, and terminal areas tinged with purplish brown ; an indistinct sinuous antemedial line with black points at the veins; black points in middle of cell and on discocellulars; a rather diffused medial line excurved below costa and incurved below lower angle ot cell; postmedial line slightly defined on outer side by ochreous, excurved below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale ochreous, dentate, angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, incurved at discal fold where there is a blackish patch beyond it; a terminal series of prominent black points ; cilia reddish ochreous irrorated with black. Hind wing ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; a slight blackish antemedial line ; a small black discoidal spot; postmedial line slightly defined on outer side by ochreous, minutely waved ; subterminal li
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