. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PSETJDOSTEREHA.—GrEOHrPSOMA. 641 5975, Pseudosterrha oranaria. Chesias oranaria, Lucas, Expl. Algeria, p. 393, pi. 4. f. 4 (1848); Oberth. Et. Ent. xix. p. 38, pi. 6. ff. 40, 41 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 373. 2. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey-white; abdomen ochreous, whitish irrorated with fuscous brown at base, extremity, and on ventral surface. Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with black, the veins, discal and submedian folds strongly streaked with white and defined on each side by black to the postmedi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PSETJDOSTEREHA.—GrEOHrPSOMA. 641 5975, Pseudosterrha oranaria. Chesias oranaria, Lucas, Expl. Algeria, p. 393, pi. 4. f. 4 (1848); Oberth. Et. Ent. xix. p. 38, pi. 6. ff. 40, 41 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 373. 2. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey-white; abdomen ochreous, whitish irrorated with fuscous brown at base, extremity, and on ventral surface. Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with black, the veins, discal and submedian folds strongly streaked with white and defined on each side by black to the postmedial line, which is very oblique from costa just before apex to middle of inner margin, white defined on outer side by black. Fig. 174.—Pseudosterrha oranaria, 5. |. and on inner side also from submedian fold to inner margin ; sub- terminal line white, oblique, arising from apex; cilia white with tine black lines at base and tips. Hind wing grey sulfused with fuscous black; the cilia white with black line near base and some black scales at tips ; the underside white irrorated with black-brown, a diff'used black discoidal spot and patch on termen below apex. S . Larger : fore wing sometimes tinged with rufous, the streaks on the veins less distinct, the postmedial line finer and slightly incurved below vein 4, the subtermiual line less distinct; hind wing paler. Hah. Alseeia {Mrs. NicIioU), 2 $ , Oran. Exp. S 30, $ 24 millim. Genus GYROHYPSOMA. Type. Gyrohypsoma, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlix. p. 47 (1888) sterrha. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons, the 3rd short; frons with small rounded corneous process at middle with raised edges, a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antennse of female ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pi-othorax without crest, the inetathorax with depressed crest; tibiae slightly fringed with hair, the fore tibia with claw at extremity on inner si
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