Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ere duplicatespecimens, one of which was returned, labelled in Mr. Butlers handwriting, Leucania semivittata; and that specimen, and similar specimens in mycollection, have the spurs of the hind tibiae not moderately long, as statedin the description of the genus Leucania in Walkers British Museum List,but each pair consisting of one long and one very short spur, as in sulcanaabove described. (/) Chlenias manxifera, sp. nov.(Plate IX., fig. V.) Body rather stouter and more depressed that that of C. egregia of crested, as in C. egre
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ere duplicatespecimens, one of which was returned, labelled in Mr. Butlers handwriting, Leucania semivittata; and that specimen, and similar specimens in mycollection, have the spurs of the hind tibiae not moderately long, as statedin the description of the genus Leucania in Walkers British Museum List,but each pair consisting of one long and one very short spur, as in sulcanaabove described. (/) Chlenias manxifera, sp. nov.(Plate IX., fig. V.) Body rather stouter and more depressed that that of C. egregia of crested, as in C. egregia; white above, black in front; a small whitetuft above the proboscis. Proboscis long. Palpi porrect, extending a littlebeyond the head, as in C. egregia; third joint white, slender, clavate (notconical), more (not less) than half the length of the second, rather naked; * Walker, Lep. Het., IX., p. 68, et seq. t Lep. Het., suppl. ii., p. 628. I Proceedings of Zoological Soc. of London, May 1st, 1877, p. 382. TRANS. !TUT[.].E. i.
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