Moths . ; C. $ S. no. 4280. S. Pale ferruginous ; palpi white at base below. Fore wingwith indistinct outwardly-oblique sinuous antemedial line; an indistinct postmedial linehighly curved from costa tovein 2 and angled outwardsin interno-median inter-space ; the margin slightlysuffused with fuscous. Hindwing pale; the area belowFig. 216.—Discothyris ferruginata, $. \. the cell ferruginous ; a post-medial dark line sinuousfrom costa to vein 4, then somewhat bent outwards and waved touear anal angle ; the apex slightly suffused with fuscous ; the ciliablackish at base, pale at Sikhim.
Moths . ; C. $ S. no. 4280. S. Pale ferruginous ; palpi white at base below. Fore wingwith indistinct outwardly-oblique sinuous antemedial line; an indistinct postmedial linehighly curved from costa tovein 2 and angled outwardsin interno-median inter-space ; the margin slightlysuffused with fuscous. Hindwing pale; the area belowFig. 216.—Discothyris ferruginata, $. \. the cell ferruginous ; a post-medial dark line sinuousfrom costa to vein 4, then somewhat bent outwards and waved touear anal angle ; the apex slightly suffused with fuscous ; the ciliablackish at base, pale at Sikhim. Exp. 22 millim. 5149. Discothyris vestigialis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 628. <3 . Differs from ferruginata in the patagia being white-tipped;the fore wing paler and semihyahne ; the antemedial line obliquelycurved; the postmedial line oblique and strongly marked fromcosta to vein 6, where it is angled, then waved, reduced to speckson the veins and inwardly oblique to inner margin just beyond. DISCOTHYEIS. — PACHYZANCLA. 401 middle. Hind wing with the postrnedial line maculate from vein 3to inner margin, the spots on veins 2 and 16 black and Sikhim. Exp. 22 millim. Genus , ttibn. Verz. p. 368 (? 1818). Type, N. noctuella, Schiff. Range. Universally distributed. Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden byhair; maxillary palpi filiform; frons rounded ; antennae of malewith long cilia ; tibise with the outer spurs about half the lengthof the inner; abdomen of male with lateral tufts on the terminalsegments. Fore wing long and narrow; the apex rounded;vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from the angle ;10 approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing ample; veins 4, 5 closelyapproximated for a short distance; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7anastomosing with 8. 5150. Nomophila noctuella, Schif. Wien. Verz. p. 136; C. $ hybridalis, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. figs. 114, indistinctalis, Wlk.
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