. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PTISCIANA.—CLETTITAiaXA. 287 cantemedial line indistinctly double, brownish, oblique to subcostal nervure and bent outs^^ards below the cell, a small tuft of white scales on its outer edge in the cell and another on discocellulars ; postmedial line brownish, strongly bent outwards from below costa. Fig. 93.—Ftisciana senunivea, (^. \. to vein 6, angled inwards at discal fold, outwards at veins 4, -S, then bent inwards and dentate to inner margin, some brown points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white slightly defined o
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PTISCIANA.—CLETTITAiaXA. 287 cantemedial line indistinctly double, brownish, oblique to subcostal nervure and bent outs^^ards below the cell, a small tuft of white scales on its outer edge in the cell and another on discocellulars ; postmedial line brownish, strongly bent outwards from below costa. Fig. 93.—Ftisciana senunivea, (^. \. to vein 6, angled inwards at discal fold, outwards at veins 4, -S, then bent inwards and dentate to inner margin, some brown points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white slightly defined on inner side by brown and with brown point at costa, minutely waved, somewhat angled inwards at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown. Underside of both wings red-brown, the costa of fore wing white with some dark points towards apex. Hah. SiKHiM; Travancobe, Pirmad (Mrs. Imrai/),2 $; Crtlon", Pundaloya (Green), 1 (S, Gampola (MacJciuood), 1 c?, Galboda (Mackivood), 1 c?; Pokneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 c? type. Exp. 30-34 millim. Genus CLETTHARINA. Clettharina, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 379 (1894; . Type. nit ens. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to well above vertex of head and fringed with scales in front and behind towards exti-eraity, the 3rd joint short, oblique; frons suiooth ; eyes large, round; antennge of male laminate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; fore tibite fringed at sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibise slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the costa strongly arched near base, the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole ; 11 from cell, a medial ridge of raised scales across end of cell and submedian interspace. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5
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