. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 226 the latter rather quadrate and with dark patch on its lower part; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, dentate and pro- duced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, diffused, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and dentate on veins 4, 3, angled inwards and forming a white patch in submedian. —Aglossestra deserticola, c?. fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia rufous intersected Avith white. Hind wi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 226 the latter rather quadrate and with dark patch on its lower part; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, dentate and pro- duced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, diffused, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and dentate on veins 4, 3, angled inwards and forming a white patch in submedian. —Aglossestra deserticola, c?. fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia rufous intersected Avith white. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with rufous ; the underside with discoidal point and sinuous postmedial line showing through to upperside. Hah. Egypt, Suez {J. J. Wall-er), 1 J type. Ea^). 3G millim. Genus EPIA. Type. £^ra, Hiibn. Verz. p. 214 (1827) irrec/ularis. Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, upturned, tlie 2nd joint fringed with hair in front; frons with truncate conical prominence on lower part with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antennte of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; fore tibia with long carved claw-like spines on outer side of proximal joints; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only, A. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards below costa to near subterminal line, then obliquely curved pidurata. B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not bent outwards below costa to near postmedial line. a. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly incurved below vein 2. a^. Fore wing largely suffused with rufous irregularis. b^. Fore wi
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