. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 114 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing \yith 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- mosing with cell near base on]j. Sect. I. (Ckandata). Antennje of male bipectinate with long branches, tlie apex simple. A. Fore wing bluish white with black markings partita. B. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous and purplish illocata. 2859. Trachea partita. Chand
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 114 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing \yith 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- mosing with cell near base on]j. Sect. I. (Ckandata). Antennje of male bipectinate with long branches, tlie apex simple. A. Fore wing bluish white with black markings partita. B. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous and purplish illocata. 2859. Trachea partita. Chandata partita, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 114, pi. 4. f. 16 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 222. Head and thorax white ; palpi except towards tips, sides of frons, antennae and some scales between them, tips of tegulae and some scales at middle, edges of patagia and sides of metathorax, and prothoracic crest black ; pectus and legs fuscous black, the tibise and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous black, the dorsal crests deep black. Pore wing bluish white; subbasal line repre- sented by black striaB from costa and cell ; a black patch on basal inner area, followed by a black band, oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved, sometimes interrupted below costa; ante- medial line expanding into a wedge-shaped spot at costa, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; claviform slightly defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform white, con- joined on median nervure, undefined above and below, defined by. 'F\g. 2Q.—Trachea partita, (S. \. a black bar on inner side of orbicular which is elliptical and by black patches before and between them, a white patch on costa above orbicular; a sliglit, oblique, dentate medial line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line defined on outer side by a triangular black patch from costa with white points on costa, then obsolescent, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, waved ; subterminal line obs
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