. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. DYSMILICUIA. A'J9 blackish at sides -with gre)" rings at extremities of the joints ; frons with hiteral black bars; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing purplish rufous; a small white spot at base ; subbasal line represented by a whitish striga from costa and point in cell; antemedial line indistinct, dark, defined on inner side by whitish striae at costa and inner margin and slight marks in and below cell, obli(iuc, waved, strongly oxcurved above inner margin ; orbicular small, round, with
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. DYSMILICUIA. A'J9 blackish at sides -with gre)" rings at extremities of the joints ; frons with hiteral black bars; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing purplish rufous; a small white spot at base ; subbasal line represented by a whitish striga from costa and point in cell; antemedial line indistinct, dark, defined on inner side by whitish striae at costa and inner margin and slight marks in and below cell, obli(iuc, waved, strongly oxcurved above inner margin ; orbicular small, round, with white annulus defined by black; reniform with yellowish mark in centre and white points representing upper and lower parts of annulus, defined by black and constricted at middle; postmedial line indistinct, defined on outer side by some whitish scales, and with white strise at costa and inner margin, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and with whitish point beyond it on vein 1, some Avhite points beyond it on costa; subterminal line white, interrupted in parts and slightly defined by brown suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a terminal series of black points with white points between them at base of cilia. "Hind wing grey-brown with a reddish tinge; cilia pale rufous at base, whitish at tips ; the underside greyish, the costal area suffused with rufous, a faint discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo {D. Jones), 5 J, 1 $ , Ex^^. 22 millim. Sect. III. Antenna; of male laminate. 4116. Dysmilichia hicyclica. Erastria bicydica, Stand, Stett. ent. Zeit. 18S8, p. 40: p. 231. id. Cat. Lep. pal. c? . Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey-white: paljji whitish with brown bands on 2nd and 3rd joints; pectus and legs whitish, the tibite and tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing dull brown. Byt'iiiUichm hicyc
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