. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XrOLTTA. lUIYXf' 307 Genus NEOLITA, iiov. 'I'vpe, N. perdriaUi. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi pi^rrect, extending about twice the longtli of jicad and broadly fringed with hair above and below ; frons smooth with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennoB of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; build slender; tibi;« smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing narrow, tlie apex produced, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell;
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XrOLTTA. lUIYXf' 307 Genus NEOLITA, iiov. 'I'vpe, N. perdriaUi. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi pi^rrect, extending about twice the longtli of jicad and broadly fringed with hair above and below ; frons smooth with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennoB of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; build slender; tibi;« smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing narrow, tlie apex produced, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 'J, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; fj obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 47;25. Neolita perstriata, n. sj). S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous Avhite ; palpi tinged with rufous and with sliglit brown streak at sides ; legs tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, the costal edge brownish : a subbasal black point in cell; traces of a curved antemedial series of blaok points : a black point in middle of cell and another on discocelluhirs ; a «^. I"lg. 129.—ycolita perMriuta, fj. |. diffused red-brown fascia from apex to lower angle of cell; a post- medial series of slight black points on the veins, strongly bent out- wards below costa, then obliquely curved to inner margin; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white ; a terminal series of black points from apex to vein '2 ; the underside with the costal area faintly tinged w'ith rufous. Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 'I (j" type. '2'2 millira. Genus RHYNCHOLITA, nov. Type, li. atripancfa. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi jxirrecl, the -!iul joint extendiii:; about three times length of iiead and fringed with hair above and below, t lie ord moderate; frons smooth, witli tuft o
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