. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MELASTROTA. CHLOROGEXIA. SQ7 underside. Hind whig: with vein 2 from before middle of cell; 3, 5 absent- 6, 7 stalked; 8 from middle of cell. In key differs from Ohlorogenia in the fore wing having vein 9 stalked with 10, vein 12 with veinlets between it and costa. 11-jO I. Melastrota nigrisqnaniata. Pseudoblabes nigrisqwamata, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 467 (1901). S â Fulvous yellow; head orange ; underside of wings brownish. Fig. 269.âMelastrota nigrisquamata, rf. \. fore wing with black patch on subcostal area and in
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MELASTROTA. CHLOROGEXIA. SQ7 underside. Hind whig: with vein 2 from before middle of cell; 3, 5 absent- 6, 7 stalked; 8 from middle of cell. In key differs from Ohlorogenia in the fore wing having vein 9 stalked with 10, vein 12 with veinlets between it and costa. 11-jO I. Melastrota nigrisqnaniata. Pseudoblabes nigrisqwamata, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 467 (1901). S â Fulvous yellow; head orange ; underside of wings brownish. Fig. 269.âMelastrota nigrisquamata, rf. \. fore wing with black patch on subcostal area and in upper part of cell. Hah. Queensland, Kuranda (DodJ), 1 <3, Duaringa, 1 J type. Exp. IS millim. 1150 c. Melastrota dona. (Plate XLI. fig. 3d.) Pseudoblabes dona, Swinh. A. M. X. H. (7) vii. p. 467 (1901). $. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow. Fore wing reddish brown; the base yellow; a triangular yellow patch from middle of costa to median nervure ; the apical area yellow, its inner edge curved from costa beyond middle to termen above tornus. Hind wing yellow to middle of eosta and tornus, the apical area reddish brown. Hah. Queensland. Duaringa. 1 $ type. Exp. IS millim. *1151<7. Chlorogenia pallidiniaculata. Stictosia paUidimaculata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 244 (1912). Fore wing with vein 11 not anastomosing with 12. <3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow, the patagia pale red-brown. Fore wing pale yellow, the costal edge blackish towards base ; a broad pale red-brown antemedial band enclosing a yellow spot below eosta, its outer edge oblicpie to lower angle of cell ; the area beyond the cell pale red-brown enclosing a postmedial yellow spot below the costa, the inner edge of this area incurved and conjoined to the antemedial red-brown band at lower angle of cell ; the termen narrowly yellow except towards tornus and the cilia yellow. Hind win_r pale yellow tinged with rufous; the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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