. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELESMA. 369 Genus ELESMA. Type. Elesma, Wlk. xxxii. 608 (1865) subglauoa. Ainaloptera, Turner, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903) . subglauoa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short with slight tuft of hair in front; frons smooth with large tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spre
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELESMA. 369 Genus ELESMA. Type. Elesma, Wlk. xxxii. 608 (1865) subglauoa. Ainaloptera, Turner, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903) . subglauoa. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short with slight tuft of hair in front; frons smooth with large tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crests ; tibie slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 on a long stalk ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 on a long stalk ; 5 fully developed from just above angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 6688. Elesma subglauca. Elesma suhglauca, Wlk. xxxii. 608 (1805). Meta-ptila ijhilomela, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxv. p. 31 (1900). Amalojptila triorbis, Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903). Head and tegulae whitish irrorated with fuscous; thorax grey irrorated with black; abdomen whitish. Fore wing grey finely irrorated with black ; the antemedial line black, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved and angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular small, round, defined by black ; black- edged lunules on median and subcostal nervures before end of cell. Fig. 137.—Elesma subgkmca, 5. \. and on discocellulars, with raised brown scales in centres; post- medial line fine, waved, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then strongly incurved and minutely dentate ; subterminal line greyish defined on inner side by black, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3,
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