. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DICHONIA. 293 clothed cliiefly with scales, the tegiilte dorsally produced to a ridge; the head, pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus and tibite clothed with long hair; abdomen witli dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the terraen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellula
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DICHONIA. 293 clothed cliiefly with scales, the tegiilte dorsally produced to a ridge; the head, pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus and tibite clothed with long hair; abdomen witli dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the terraen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto mosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennte of male ciliated. A. Fore wing with the terminal area blackish lubrica. B. Fore wing with the terminal area concolorous ohliqioisigiia, 2459. Dichonia lubrica. Hadena hihrica, Butl. 111. Het. Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 228. B. M. vii. p. 60, pi. 128. f. 9 (1889) S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grej'; palpi blackisH at sides except at extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints; tegulse with black medial line ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with brownish fuscous and irrorated with black, the postmedial area paler, the terminal area darker; a sinuous black streak below base of cell; subbasal line double filled in with whitish, angled inwards in cell and ending at the black streak; antemedial line double, waved, oblique; clavi- form large, defined by black, rather acute at extremity, with black streak from it to postmedial line and bidentate white patch beyond. Fig. 87.—Dichonia lubrica, (^, \, it; orbicular and reniform large, greyish, defined by black, the former oblique elliptical; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some grey points beyond it on costa; subterminal line grey, faintly defined by dark scales on inner
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