. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 606 AGAKISTIDjE. with liirge dorsal crests ou basal segments. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosins: with 8 to forn^ the areole, 7 from end of areole; 11 from cell. ITintl wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocelUilai'S ; G, 7 from upper angle. 133. Asteropetes noctuina. Smclyra noctuina, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 206 (1878); id. 111. Het, B.'M. ii. p. 3, pi. 22. f. 1; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 38. Head and thora
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 606 AGAKISTIDjE. with liirge dorsal crests ou basal segments. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosins: with 8 to forn^ the areole, 7 from end of areole; 11 from cell. ITintl wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocelUilai'S ; G, 7 from upper angle. 133. Asteropetes noctuina. Smclyra noctuina, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 206 (1878); id. 111. Het, B.'M. ii. p. 3, pi. 22. f. 1; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 38. Head and thorax clothed with blackish and grey hair; mid and hind tibiae frinired with orange; abdomen orange, the dorsal crests blackish, mixed with rufous and grey at base, the extremity black, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing purple, some greyish hair at base of cell; a brownish fascia below the cell, with three oblique. Fig. 264.âAsteropetes noctuina, cJ Streaks from it to vein 1 ; the orbicular and reniform black, suffused with brown scales and edged with grey, the latter with tridentate ochreoos-white patch beyond it and some grey-brown suffusion above it on costa ; two black postmedial lines on a brown band slightly angled inwards at vein 2, the inner cairved inwards to upper edge of reniform, the outer to costa; the terminal area purplish pink, with red line on its inner edge and two on termen Avith some black and white on their inner side from vein 3 to tornus; â cilia brown. Hind wing orange, with large round black discoidal spot; a black terminal band diffused inwards to near base on inner area, and leaving an orange mark on termen above tornus ; cilia yellowish white, with a brown line through them. Underside orange, fore wing with the orbicular, and both wings with the reniform stigma and an elongate mark below the cell black. Hah. Japan, Yezo (Pryer), 2^,25, Hakodate {Leivis), 4 S, 4 5 J types. Exp. 44 millim. Genus :GOCERA, nov. Type, P. conjiuens. Proboscis fully de
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