. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. FALA.âLT5UC0CNEMIS. 221 â¢vritliont crests. wing with the costa slightly exi-isod beyond middla, tlie a]jex rectangular, tlie terineu evenly curved arid not crenulate ; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind veing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 auastomosing with the cell near base only. 3836. Pala ptychophora. Fala ptychnphora, Grrote, Proc. Acad. Nat
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. FALA.âLT5UC0CNEMIS. 221 â¢vritliont crests. wing with the costa slightly exi-isod beyond middla, tlie a]jex rectangular, tlie terineu evenly curved arid not crenulate ; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind veing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 auastomosing with the cell near base only. 3836. Pala ptychophora. Fala ptychnphora, Grrote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 426 ; id. 111. , p. 64, pi. 3. f. 36; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 264. (J . Head and thorax white mixed with black-hrown, the head and teguise tinged with ochreous, the tegulae and thoracic crests tipped with blackish ; abdomen pale ochreous, the ventral surface â whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with ochreous, especially in discal and submedian folds and on terminal area, and with some dark brown irroration especially from cell to postmedial line, between veins 5 and 2; subbasal line represented. Fig. 46.âFala jitychvphora, J. }. by a slight dark striga from costa; antemedial line blackish, oblique from costa to median nervure, then dentate; orbicular and reiiiform white defined by blackish, the former round, the latter narrow, oblique, slightly angled inwards on median nervure; postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa and the area between it and subterminal line filled in by white lunules from vein 5 to inner margin ; subterminal line black defined on outer side by an oblique white bar from costa, then dentate; a terminal series of black strise interrupted by white points at extremity of veins and base of cilia which are blackish. Hind wing ochreous irrorated with brown ; traces of a discoidal lunula and curved postmedial line; cil
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