. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 372 NOCTTJID^. Genus SCOTOSTENA, nov. Type, S. liigens. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with rounded prominence with slight raised edges at extremity and minute truncate process from middle, a curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennce of female ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crests, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibiae smoothly sealed ; abdomen
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 372 NOCTTJID^. Genus SCOTOSTENA, nov. Type, S. liigens. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with rounded prominence with slight raised edges at extremity and minute truncate process from middle, a curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennce of female ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crests, the metathorax with decumbent crest; tibiae smoothly sealed ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 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 fi'om middle of discoeellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. A. Fore wing fuscous brown , lugens. B. Fore wing ochreous brown pinodes. 5567. Scotostena lugens, n. sp. 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown with a greyish tinge ; palpi, pectus, and legs with whitish mixed, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing fuscous brown with a greyish tinge; subbasal line represented by a faint blackish striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, black defined on inner side by greyish,. Fig. 115.—Scotostena lugens, 2- !• waved, somewhat oblique; orbicular a whitish or white point defiined by black ; reniform with brown centre and more or less complete whitish or white annulus defined by black, constricted at middle; postmedial line slight, blackish defined on outer side by grey, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely- waved, strongly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line hardly traceable, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia greyish with a slight dark line near base. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia wh
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