. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 322 NOCTiriD^. costa to vein 6, then hardly traceable, waved, some short red streaks beyond it on costa and a streak on vein 9 ; traces of a rather punctiform reddish subterrainal line ; cilia red. Hind wing purplish pink, tinged with brownish towards base ; a black spot at tornus defined above by a whitish lunule; cilia pale pink ; Iho underside with diffused dark postmedial line excurved below costa, then oblique. Hah. BtJEMA, E. Pegu {Dolieriij), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exj). 36 mi Him. 6627. Arachnognatha metascotia
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 322 NOCTiriD^. costa to vein 6, then hardly traceable, waved, some short red streaks beyond it on costa and a streak on vein 9 ; traces of a rather punctiform reddish subterrainal line ; cilia red. Hind wing purplish pink, tinged with brownish towards base ; a black spot at tornus defined above by a whitish lunule; cilia pale pink ; Iho underside with diffused dark postmedial line excurved below costa, then oblique. Hah. BtJEMA, E. Pegu {Dolieriij), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exj). 36 mi Him. 6627. Arachnognatha metascotia. Arachnoc/naiha metascotia, Hrapsii. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 451 (1897). Head and thorax greyish brown ; tegulre and patagia olive-green, the latter edged with brown above; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the fore tibise greenish; abdomen whitish tinged with brown especially towards extremity, the crests brown. Fore wing olive-green, the basal and inner areas with some brown suffusion and irroration except at tornus; a waved dark line close to base from costa to veia 1; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown, waved, curved, with dark spot at inner margin, an elongate dentate loop beyond it on vein 1 ; a poirit of raised dark scales in middle of cell; reniform defined by brown and with some brown in centre, round; an oblique brownish medial shade from costa to reniform ; ^^ Fig. 116.—Arachnognatha metascotia, S- \- postmedial line whitish to discal fold and oblique to vein 6, below vein 5 brown, dentate, and inwardly oblique with whitish striga at inner margin, some minute brown streaks and whitish irroration beyond it on cosla and a streak below vein 8; subterminal line formed of dentate brown marks defined slightly on outer side by whitish, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of blackish points; cilia brown. Hind wing greyish brown, the inner margin suffused with blackish towards tornus and with white postmedial bar; the
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