. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 104 AECTIAD^. *187. Scoliacma Ibrunnea. (Plate XX. fig. 26.) ScoUacma bninnca, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iv. p. 201 (1899). 2. Head, tegulse, and patagia except at tips orange-yellow; palpi dark at tips; thorax and abdomen brown with a slight purplish tinge, the extremity and ventral surface, the coxse and femora orange. Fore wing red-brown. Hhid wing darker brown. Hah. ]Sf. Guinea, Port Moresby (Goldie), typef $ in Coll. Druce. 34 millim. *188. Scoliacma pactolias. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 22.) Scoliacma jMctoIi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 104 AECTIAD^. *187. Scoliacma Ibrunnea. (Plate XX. fig. 26.) ScoUacma bninnca, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iv. p. 201 (1899). 2. Head, tegulse, and patagia except at tips orange-yellow; palpi dark at tips; thorax and abdomen brown with a slight purplish tinge, the extremity and ventral surface, the coxse and femora orange. Fore wing red-brown. Hhid wing darker brown. Hah. ]Sf. Guinea, Port Moresby (Goldie), typef $ in Coll. Druce. 34 millim. *188. Scoliacma pactolias. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 22.) Scoliacma jMctoIias, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 696 (1886); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 288. Tigrioicles acosma, Turner, Trans. E,oy. Soc. S. Austr. 18S9, p. 10. Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs ochreous yellow ; palpi and antennae fuscous. Fore wing ochreous yelloAv irrorated with a few fuscous scales. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow. Hah. N. Qtteenslakd, Johnstone R., type t $ acosma in Coll, Turner ; Victokia, Melbourne. Exp. 31 millim. Genus LEPISTA. Type. Lepisfa, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Men. vii. p. 146 (1863) panclula. Byphlebia, Feld. Eeis. Nov. p. 4 (1874) pandula,. Proboscis fully developed; palpi roughly sealed, porrect, not extending beyond frons, vrhicb is rounded ; antennce of male serrate and fasciculate ; tibia? with the spurs short; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing narrow, the costa nearly straight, the termen shovt; vein 2 from well before angle of cell, oblique ; 3, 4 coincident; 5 absent; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free; 11 from towards end of cell, anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 well before angle; 3,4 coincident; 5, absent; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. A. Fore wing orange, with terminal black band fcindula. B. Fore wing leaden grey, with orange costal fascia semiochracea. 189. Lepista pandula. Lithosia pandula, Eoisd., Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 597 (1847); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 313. ByphUhia trimenii, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. f. 32 (1874).
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