. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. OBONTODES. I4r waved ; a patch of blue-grcj' euffusion irroratcd with black in and below end of cell ; a black discoidal striga with patches of chocolate- brown beyond it and above it on costa; postmedial line indistinctlj^ double tilled in with yellowish and detined on outer side by yellowish, excurved and minutely waved, some white points beyond it on. Fig. 48.—Taralophi ruhiginea, 2. \. costa ; snhtenninal line white with blackish points beyond it below veins 7, 5, 4, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurve
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. OBONTODES. I4r waved ; a patch of blue-grcj' euffusion irroratcd with black in and below end of cell ; a black discoidal striga with patches of chocolate- brown beyond it and above it on costa; postmedial line indistinctlj^ double tilled in with yellowish and detined on outer side by yellowish, excurved and minutely waved, some white points beyond it on. Fig. 48.—Taralophi ruhiginea, 2. \. costa ; snhtenninal line white with blackish points beyond it below veins 7, 5, 4, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then minutely waved ; a series of dark siriic just before termen. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with brown narrowing to a point at tornus ; cilia Avith pale points at base and pale tips ; the underside yellowish white thickly irrorated with pale brown, the terminal area darker with slight subterminal whitish streaks on the veins and terminal series of dark points. Hah. Ue. N. GriNEA, Owgarra (J/ff^-), type t ? in Coll. Eethune- Baker. Exp. 34 millim. Genus ODONTODES. Type. OdovioJes, Giien. Noct. iii. p. HO (1852) alcvca. Nednnva, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 353(1869) aleuca. Bnrdria, Wik. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 60 (1869) aletica. Probfpscis fully cleveloped ; palpi upturnerl, (he 2iid joint reaching to vertex of liefifl and moderately scaled, the 3rd ralber long; frons smootli, with tuft of liiiir above ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibire slightly fringfd with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 1st and 3rd segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, tlie termen evenly curved, crenulale, the tornus with scale-tooth ; veins 3 and .') from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from to anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully develo]ied from just abov
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