. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. roi' 19 Geuus LOPHOTYNA, nov. Type, L. albirena. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, friugecl with long haii- in front, the Srrl joint short, porrect; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; vertex of head crested ; eyes large , round ; autennce of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the tegula produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with high triangular crest, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibite moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal cresis on basal
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. roi' 19 Geuus LOPHOTYNA, nov. Type, L. albirena. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, friugecl with long haii- in front, the Srrl joint short, porrect; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; vertex of head crested ; eyes large , round ; autennce of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the tegula produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with high triangular crest, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibite moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal cresis on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the terinen strongly crenulate and obliquely curved ; veins 3 and b from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the arrole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen waved, veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4312. Lophotyna alljirena. Mamesira albirena, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. r)3 ; Moths Ind ii p. 212. S. Head and thorax dull reddish brown mixed with some white ; frons with lateral black bars ; basal joint of antennaa white ; tarsi fuscous witb pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown slightly irrorated with grey and fuscous. Pore wing dull reddish brown tinged with grey and fuscous, the terminal area rather darlver, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line whitish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved ; claviform a minute dark mark ; orbicular very small, round, with slight pule annulus detined by brown;. Fig. 2.—Lophotyna albirena, (^. \. reniform represented by a white bar with point above it and bifid spot below it on its outer edge; traces of a dark oblique medial line bent inwards to costa ; postmedial line black slightly defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below
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