. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. a:\ipiiii)Kin'a. 299 pure white; the underside with the cosl;i slightly tinged a\ ith ochreous. Ab. 1. jordana. Fore wi'ig with the ante- and postmedial lines strong, black with prominent spots at costa, the renit'orm obsolete.âPalestine. JJah. Armenia, 1 J; Asia ;^^l^â OI{, Poutus; , I J. Exj). 38 millim. Genus ATHETI3. ~ Type. Athctis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 209 (1827) fitrvH/ii. Ati/plia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 21.'i (J827) jjulriionaria. Eluplma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 2oO (1827) iiKiv/ikciig. Hupalotis, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 2.^)4
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. a:\ipiiii)Kin'a. 299 pure white; the underside with the cosl;i slightly tinged a\ ith ochreous. Ab. 1. jordana. Fore wi'ig with the ante- and postmedial lines strong, black with prominent spots at costa, the renit'orm obsolete.âPalestine. JJah. Armenia, 1 J; Asia ;^^l^â OI{, Poutus; , I J. Exj). 38 millim. Genus ATHETI3. ~ Type. Athctis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 209 (1827) fitrvH/ii. Ati/plia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 21.'i (J827) jjulriionaria. Eluplma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 2oO (1827) iiKiv/ikciig. Hupalotis, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 2.^)4 (1827) /'itfciiMi. yd/rig.'ia, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vi. p. 1U4 (1862) bimacuta. Aiwi-lhudvs, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xviii. p. 114 (18"J1) ... tiiidu. Probdscis fully cleveloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of liead and moderately fringed with scales in front, tlie ord .short; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenn;e of male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales mixed with some scales, tiie prothorax with small spreading crest, tbe nietalhorax without distinct crest; tibite moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, rhe costa and inner margin subparallel, the apex rounded, the termeii eveidy curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and o from near angle of cell; (i 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: b obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 I'rom upper aigle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Ancenna> of male bipectinale with moderate branches, the apex serrate. A. Fore wing fuscous black mixed with grey, the lines dis- tinct , black chionoph. B. Fore wing cuprecnis brown, the liius indistinct utbipuiicia. 3914. Athetis chionopis, n. n. Caradrina leueojn^, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. JMus. ii. p. 443 (1902), nee p. 293. Head and thorax black-brown
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