. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 480 purplish pink ; faint traces of a postraedial series of black points on the veins ; cilia rufous, with a fine pale line at base. Hind •wing ochreous, suffused with reddish fuscous especiall)' towards termen ; the cilia rufous ; the underside pale suffused with purple- pink, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line diffused outwardly to termen except at apex. Hah. Tasmania (not ), 1 S type. Exp. 4G millim. Sect. II. Antenna of male ciliated. A. Palpi of male with spreading tuft of hair from npperside of 2
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 480 purplish pink ; faint traces of a postraedial series of black points on the veins ; cilia rufous, with a fine pale line at base. Hind •wing ochreous, suffused with reddish fuscous especiall)' towards termen ; the cilia rufous ; the underside pale suffused with purple- pink, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line diffused outwardly to termen except at apex. Hah. Tasmania (not ), 1 S type. Exp. 4G millim. Sect. II. Antenna of male ciliated. A. Palpi of male with spreading tuft of hair from npperside of 2nd joint. *1831. Cirphis pilipalpis. HcUoj)liila. pilipalpis, Grote, Proc. Bost. See. N. H. xviii. p. 415 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 189. 2. Head and thorax pale flesh-coloiir irrorated with black scales, the tegulae yellowish ; abdonaen whitish, the ventral surface. Fi^. HG. — CirjjJiii , (^. \. irrorated with a few black scales. Fore wing pale flesh-colour, rather deeper in discal fold towards postmedial line and rather strongly irrorated with black ; the costal edge white ; antemedial line represented by two dark points on inner area ; a pale discoidal bar slightly angled inwards on vein 1 and with black point in lower angle of cell and diffused fuscous patch beyond it; postmedial line fuscous, highly crenulate, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved; a terminal series of points. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; the cilia white ; underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, some black points on termen. Hah. , Florida, in Coll. Schaus, Appalachicola. 46 millim. B. Palpi of male normal. a. Mid tibire of male with thick fringes of hair on both sides ; abdomen thickly clothed with woolly hair, the anal tuft very large. (d. Fore tibiae of male and first two joints of tarsi with very thick fringes of long hair ; the hind tibitc with thick fringes of hair on both Plea
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