. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EHABINOPTEEyx. 287 Genus RHABINOPTERYX. ^^ ^ Ehabinopteryx, Christ. Eom. Mem. t. p. 32 (1889) tilrauica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd joint short; frons with rounded prominence with large corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennse of male almost simple, with tuft of long hair from basal joint in front; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; bu
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EHABINOPTEEyx. 287 Genus RHABINOPTERYX. ^^ ^ Ehabinopteryx, Christ. Eom. Mem. t. p. 32 (1889) tilrauica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd joint short; frons with rounded prominence with large corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennse of male almost simple, with tuft of long hair from basal joint in front; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; build slender; tibite slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole : 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the reniform present turanica. B. Fore wing with the reniform absent mbtilis. 3899. Rhaljinopteryx turanica. Ligia turanica, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reise, p. 67, pi. 4. f. 69 (1874); Christ. Rom. Mem. v. p. 34, pi. 2. f. 6i Stand. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 242. S. Head and thorax while mixed with pale red-brown and some blackish scales; basal joint of antennse with some black scales ; tegulye with two brown lines near base and one near tips ; tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing white tinged with pale brown ; a white fascia in basal half of submedian fold with a fine brown streak in the fold with some blackish at extremity ; subbasal line represented by two slight black points below costa, the antemedial line by two black points on costa and two on vein 1; a white fascia in middle. Fig. 83.—BluibinojJteryx turanica, J. \. of cell with fine brown streak in the fold, some blackish beyo
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