. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 332 N0CXUIDJ5. in subniedian fold, then incurved; renit'orm defined by white; an obli<jue white fascia from ajiex to a double chain-like white sub- terminal line incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black and white lunules. Hind wing black-brown, the cilia whitish at tips. Underside of tore wing black, greyish towards termen and with orange patch at base. Hah. Queensland, Makay, type f $ in Coll. Lower. Exj). oH millim. Genus LOPHOSEMA, nov. Type, L. purpurascens. Proboscis slight, not fiinctioiial ; palpi ob
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 332 N0CXUIDJ5. in subniedian fold, then incurved; renit'orm defined by white; an obli<jue white fascia from ajiex to a double chain-like white sub- terminal line incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black and white lunules. Hind wing black-brown, the cilia whitish at tips. Underside of tore wing black, greyish towards termen and with orange patch at base. Hah. Queensland, Makay, type f $ in Coll. Lower. Exj). oH millim. Genus LOPHOSEMA, nov. Type, L. purpurascens. Proboscis slight, not fiinctioiial ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2ncl joiut reaching to vertex of head and fringed with hair above towards extremity, the 8rd long and dilated at extremity; irons with of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennte of male laminate, minutely serrate and ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the meta- thorax with depressed crest; foro and hind tibise broadly fringed on each side with hair, the hind tibii^ sligiitly fringed; abdomen with dorsal crests oa basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen nearly straight to vein 4, then very oblique to tornus ; 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. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 6637. Lophosema purpurascens. Lophosema purpurascens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8j vi. p. 204 (1910). ^. Head and thorax purplish grey, the vertex of head with black streak, the tegula3 with black streak at middle and purplish red outer edge, the patagia edged above with purplish red ; pectus in front and legs ochreous, the fore and mid tibiae with some purplish grey and streaked with black; abdomen fuscous brown, the crests greyish and red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore. Fig. 121.—Lojjhosema purpurascens, (^.
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