. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. STEGANIODES, 269 rounded the termen eTenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near an-i-le of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7,8,9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell less than half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5406. Steganiodes mesophsea, n. sp. (S. Head fuscous brown slightly mixed with yellow, the palpi whitish in front; thorax and abdomen yellow
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. STEGANIODES, 269 rounded the termen eTenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near an-i-le of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7,8,9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell less than half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5406. Steganiodes mesophsea, n. sp. (S. Head fuscous brown slightly mixed with yellow, the palpi whitish in front; thorax and abdomen yellow mixed with deep rufous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white ; fore legs fuscous brown in front, the tufts of hair behind coxfe fulvous. Fore wing yellow irrorated with fiery red, the costal and medial areas deep purplish chooolate-brown ; a subbasal brown line from the dark area to inner margin ; antemedial line dark brown, obliquely curved, forming the inner edge of the chocolate medial area which is slightly irrorated with blackish ; a yellow discoidal lunule ; postmedial line brown, defining the chocolate area, incurved from costa to vein 4 where it is acutely angled outwards, then again incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; subterminal. Fig. 77.—Steganiodes mesophwa, cJ. }. line double, red-brown, minutely waved to vein 3 M'here it is angled outwards to termen, then slightly dentate and ending at tornus; an oblique chocolate bar beyond it between veins 4, 5 ; a chocolate-brown terminal line; cilia yellow mixed with rufous. Hind wing yellow irrorated with fiery red; an oblique elliptical discoidal spot defined by rufous; postmedial line rufous, oblique to vein 4 where it is acutely angled outwards, angled inwards at vein 2 and outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line double, rufous, oblique to discal fold, then dentate, the veins beyond it with rufous streaks ; a rufous terminal line ; cilia yellow mixed with rufous; the underside yellowish
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