. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. UI-J :. edpje; a fine brown terminal line: cilia brown with dark lin tlir()iip;li thrm. Hind winp: piile ochreous suff'nsed with brown ; a tine brown terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous. Underside ochreous wholly snfl\ised with red-brown. Il(t1>. ]<]£. E. Ai'KicA, Kikiiyu {Ci-awnhui/), 1 d , 1 $ type. Exjy. '{') millim. Genus HOPLOLYTHRA. nov. Type, H. disnstriga. I'roboscis fnlly developed; palpi obliquely u)5turned, the second joint reacliing about to middle of frons and iiioderatelv fringed with scales, th
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. UI-J :. edpje; a fine brown terminal line: cilia brown with dark lin tlir()iip;li thrm. Hind winp: piile ochreous suff'nsed with brown ; a tine brown terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous. Underside ochreous wholly snfl\ised with red-brown. Il(t1>. ]<]£. E. Ai'KicA, Kikiiyu {Ci-awnhui/), 1 d , 1 $ type. Exjy. '{') millim. Genus HOPLOLYTHRA. nov. Type, H. disnstriga. I'roboscis fnlly developed; palpi obliquely u)5turned, the second joint reacliing about to middle of frons and iiioderatelv fringed with scales, the 3rd short; frons with truncate conical prominence witii raised edges and small central process, a corneous plate below it excised in front ; eves large, round; antenniC of male serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro-and metatliorax witli spreading crests, tlie patagia somewiiat curled up at extremities ; fore tibire with slender spine at extremity on inner side; mid and hind tibiae moderately fringed witli hair; abdomen without crests. P^ore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the t-ermen evenlj- curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near anjile of cell; 0 from upper angle; 1) from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; .5 obsolescent from below middle of disco- cellulars; 6,7 sliortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to towards middle 4581. Hoplolythra discistriga. Lythrodes discistriga. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 207 (1903). S. Head and yellow mixed with rufous ; antennaa rufous; abdomen fulvous yellow, the ventral surface creamy white. Fore wing creamy wliite with fine rufous streaks on the veins and. Fig. 79.—Hoplolythra discistriga, cJ. {. in submedian interspace, the streaks expanding between end of cell and torraen ; cilia chequered creamy white and rufous. Hind wing golden yellow. Hah. , California, "Walters Sta., A
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