. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 78 AECTIADJE. stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 very strongly stalked ; 8 from near end of ceil. 160. ArcMnola pyralidia. Archinola pyraUdia, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 259, pi. x. f. 23, (S . Grey strongly irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing with slight blackish mark at base of costa; the tufts of scales near base and at middle and upper angle of cell very slight; an erect fuscous antemedial line ; the postmedial line indistinct, curved from
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 78 AECTIADJE. stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 very strongly stalked ; 8 from near end of ceil. 160. ArcMnola pyralidia. Archinola pyraUdia, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 259, pi. x. f. 23, (S . Grey strongly irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing with slight blackish mark at base of costa; the tufts of scales near base and at middle and upper angle of cell very slight; an erect fuscous antemedial line ; the postmedial line indistinct, curved from costa to vein 3, where it is retracted to below 'F\g. 2-2.—Archinola pyralidia, ,i. |. angle of cell. Hind wing paler brownish. Hah. Aden (Nurse), 1 J type. Exj). 16 Genus MELALEUCIA, nov. Type, M. ohliqidfasciata. Proboscis well developed. Palpi oblique, projecting about the length of head, the 2nd joint roughly scaled above and below, the 3rd naked, acuminate; frons smooth; antenna of female sini])le, the basal joint not tufted; tibiffi with the spurs well developed. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9 stalked from before angle; 10 absent; 11 oblique. Hind wing witli vein 3 from angle of cell; 4 absent; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 161. Melaleucia obliquifasciata. Nola obliquifasciata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. .503 (1896). 5 . Head white; palpi at sides and antennae blackish; tegulse and patagia white, the latter blackish at base; thorax and abdomen fuscous. Fore wing white, with blackish patch at base of costa edged with raised black scales ; an obliquo black-edged fuscous band irrorated with leaden scales from middle of costa to vein 1, somewhat constricted at middle and incurved at lower end, with a white spot on it at middle and a tuft of raised black scales at lower angle of cell; an obscure irregularly sinuous subterminal line, with patches
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