. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 28 fore legs blackish brown in front; abdomen fulvous. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with brown ; a small blackish subbasal s])ot on costa; antemedial line with small blackish spot at costa with orange striga from it and oblique blackish line from cell to inner margin: a black discoidal bar placed on a brownish medial band interrupted by slight orange streaks below costa and cell; the post- medial part of costa with white points with brown streaks between them; subterminal line whitish slightly defined on inner si
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 28 fore legs blackish brown in front; abdomen fulvous. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with brown ; a small blackish subbasal s])ot on costa; antemedial line with small blackish spot at costa with orange striga from it and oblique blackish line from cell to inner margin: a black discoidal bar placed on a brownish medial band interrupted by slight orange streaks below costa and cell; the post- medial part of costa with white points with brown streaks between them; subterminal line whitish slightly defined on inner side by brown and with dark brown patches beyond it at apex and above tornus, angled outwards to termen at vein 4, then incurved and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of small blackish spots with white striae before them and some orange between them ; cilia dark brown irrorated with white. Hind wing grey-white, the. Fig. 10.—Arsopfera 2}ichilis, $ . |. whole discal area suffused with bright rufous, the apical area dark brown : a dark subbasal mark on inner area ; a black discoidal bar ; postmedial line whitish, sinuous ; subterminal line whitish, excurvcd to near termen at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a terminal series of small blackish spots defined on inner side by whitish strife and with some fulvous between them ; cilia brown irrorated with white ; the underside grey suffused with brown, a blackish dis- coidal bar. Bab. Ceylos, Pundaloya {Green), 1 $ type. Eay, 16 millim. 5015. Arseoptera xanthopis. (Plate GXLIX. fig. 18.) Areeopterum xanthojns, Hiupsn. J. Bomb. Kat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 072 (1907). S . Head and thorax white mixed with fulvous ; palpi and frons blackish ; antennae blackish except towards base ; abdomen whitish and fulvous at base, then black with the extremity pure white ; fore legs blackish in front; mid and hind legs, pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous, the basal inner area and ttie apical a
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