. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ADDENDA AXD CORRIGKXDA. 51.' Page 589. Genus PffiCILOGRAMMA. Pcscilogramma, Butl. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 126 Type. picaia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacbing to vertex of bead and rather broadly fringed with scales, the ord moderate; frous smooth; eyes large, round; autenni« of male with long cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests formed of long spatulate scales; mid tibice fringed with very long hair on outer side, the hind tibiae moderately fringe
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ADDENDA AXD CORRIGKXDA. 51.' Page 589. Genus PffiCILOGRAMMA. Pcscilogramma, Butl. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 126 Type. picaia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacbing to vertex of bead and rather broadly fringed with scales, the ord moderate; frous smooth; eyes large, round; autenni« of male with long cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests formed of long spatulate scales; mid tibice fringed with very long hair on outer side, the hind tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base on'y. Fore wing rather narrow and elongate, the apex ratber produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell : G from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennse of male with the shaft excised just before middle, with tuft of hair fi-om upperside just before the excision and slight thickening beyond it; fore coxa; with tufts of long hair, the femora with thick tutts of hair above, the tibice with tuft of long hair on outer side at extremity ; fore wing on underside with rough yellowish scales at base on costa and below cell; hind wing with rough yellowish scales on base of costa and on inner area. 8457 a. Poecilogramma albiscripta. Zurohafa albiscripta, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 449 (1897). Ar/abra sj^ofka, Swinb. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 37, pi. 1. f. 16 (1900). Head and tegulae rufous mixed with yellowish ; thorax white mixed with brown; abdomen white tinged with brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white, the fore legs. Fig. 244.—Poecilogramma albiscHpia, cJ. }. brown in front with the tuft of hair on femora black, t
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