. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. HYPOMOLIS.— PYGAECTIA. 415 Skct. II. Antennas of male minutely serrate and ciliated. *1972. Hypomolis rul)ricosta. Thraqmatohia ruhricosta, Dognin, Lep. Loja, p. 51, pi. 4. f. 14 (1891); Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 246, 911. (S . Head and thorax brown ; palpi and slight marks on sides of frons orange-red ; pectus and coxae ochreous and red : tibise and tarsi brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, slightly sufFused with brown ; the costal area tinged with purplish
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. HYPOMOLIS.— PYGAECTIA. 415 Skct. II. Antennas of male minutely serrate and ciliated. *1972. Hypomolis rul)ricosta. Thraqmatohia ruhricosta, Dognin, Lep. Loja, p. 51, pi. 4. f. 14 (1891); Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 246, 911. (S . Head and thorax brown ; palpi and slight marks on sides of frons orange-red ; pectus and coxae ochreous and red : tibise and tarsi brown; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, slightly sufFused with brown ; the costal area tinged with purplish red, with a small black antemedial spot, a larger medial spot, and a sinuous postmedial line from costa to vein 6 ; the inner area tinged with. Fig. 167.—Hypomolis ruhricosta, (^. \. purplish, with some darker suffusion before middle and indistinct medial and postmedial lines from submedian fold to inner margin. Hind wing ochreous. 2 . Fore wing redder, more uniformly suifused with brown ; very indistinct antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines angled at middle ; hind wing pale dull crimson. Hah. EcTJADOE, Loja, in Coll. Schaus. Exj).^ S 40, 2 42 millim. Genus PYGARCTIA. Tygarctia, Grote, Can. Ent. iii. p. 124 (1871) Type. ahdominalis. Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons ; antennae of male bipectinate with the branches short; tibias with the spurs short, fore tibiae with curved apical claw; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from towards end of cell. A. Fore wing with scarlet fascise on costa and inner spragicei. B. Fore wing with orange fasciae on costa and inner margin, a. Abdomen scarlet vivida. b. Abdomen orange ahdominalis. C. Fore wing without fascige Please note that these images are extracted from
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