. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SCHALODETA. 801 Genus SCHALODETA, nov. Type, 8. fasciolata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, short, and slender; antennae of male with tuft of hair on basal joint, serrate; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore whig rather narrow, the apex rounded ; vein 2 strongly bent downwards at base; 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6, 7, 8 stalked; 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. In key differs from Holocraspedum and
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SCHALODETA. 801 Genus SCHALODETA, nov. Type, 8. fasciolata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, short, and slender; antennae of male with tuft of hair on basal joint, serrate; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore whig rather narrow, the apex rounded ; vein 2 strongly bent downwards at base; 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6, 7, 8 stalked; 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. In key differs from Holocraspedum and Philenora in the antennas having a tuft of hair on basal joint; fore whig with vein 6 stalked with 7, 8. 1134 e. Schalodeta fasciolata. Caulocera fasciolata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 218 (1913). ( itlocera fasciolata, pimctistriata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 219 (1913). Head and thorax white slightly tinged with rufous; pectus, legs, and abdomen creamy white. Fore wing creamy white, rather thinly clothed with hairy scales; some slight rufous marks at base; ill-defined pale rufous subbasal spots on costa and below the cell ; antemedial line with a pale rufous spot on costa, then Fig. 263.—Schalodeta fasciolata, tf. h incurved at subcostal nervure; a rufous patch in submedian inter- space before the medial line, which is rufous, oblique towards costa, then less oblique to vein 1 and bent inwards to inner margin, forming small spots in cell and at inner margin ; a rufous discoidal spot ; postmedial line rufous, rather diffused, oblique, sinuous; a diffused oblique maculate rufous line from costa towards apex to termen at vein 2 ; a terminal series of rufous striae from apex to submedian fold with slight white spots before them with some rufous suffusion on their inner side at apex and middle. Hind wing semihyaline white. Hub. Ditch X. Guinea, Up. Setekwa R., Snow Mts. {Meek), 1 cT, Oetakwa R. {Meek), typef d punctistriata in Coll. Roth- schild; Br. N. Guinea, Kumusi R.
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