. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LITHACODIA.âSTENOCODIA. 555 terminal line with a small white spot at costa; cilia with some pale points at base towards apex and a white patch between veins 3 and 2. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown; the underside irrorated with whitish. Abdomen of male with large lateral spiracles at base covered by valves. Hub. Mexico, type f c? in Nat. Mus.; Guatemala, San Isidro (Champion), i 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 22 millim. Genus STENOCODIA, nov. Type, S. purpicrascens. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd join
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LITHACODIA.âSTENOCODIA. 555 terminal line with a small white spot at costa; cilia with some pale points at base towards apex and a white patch between veins 3 and 2. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown; the underside irrorated with whitish. Abdomen of male with large lateral spiracles at base covered by valves. Hub. Mexico, type f c? in Nat. Mus.; Guatemala, San Isidro (Champion), i 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 22 millim. Genus STENOCODIA, nov. Type, S. purpicrascens. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex ol' head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; anl,enn£e of male with fascicles of long cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without cret;t, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibice slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 Stalked, 10 from beyond 7 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle, 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5833. Stenocodia purpurascens, n. sp. S. Head and thorax purplish red mixed with whitish ; palpi with some blackish at sides; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish; abdomeu whitish tinged with red and irrorated with blackish. Fore wing purplish red mixed with yellowish ; antemedial line indistinct, verj'^ oblique from costa to discal fold where it is angled acutely outwards, then very oblique inwardly to inner margin and slightlj^ sinuous; postmedial line double filled in with pinkish, the outer. Fig. ââ Stenocodia purpurascens, c?. |, line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, oblique and minutely waved, some greyish points beyond it on costa
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