. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 484 NOcriTiD.'F:. silvcry-whitc patch edged with hhick on basal area from l)elo-w costa to inner margin, a similar medial conicjil jjatch sutlused with black from just below costa to inner margin, its outer edge sliglitly dentato below costa; a silvery white subterminal patch defined by rather diU'usci black from below costa to vein 4, its inner edge angled inwards in discal fold and its outer minutely waved, an oblique black striga above its inner angle from costa,. Fig. 181.— Titulcia eximia, c^. \. some black poi


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 484 NOcriTiD.'F:. silvcry-whitc patch edged with hhick on basal area from l)elo-w costa to inner margin, a similar medial conicjil jjatch sutlused with black from just below costa to inner margin, its outer edge sliglitly dentato below costa; a silvery white subterminal patch defined by rather diU'usci black from below costa to vein 4, its inner edge angled inwards in discal fold and its outer minutely waved, an oblique black striga above its inner angle from costa,. Fig. 181.— Titulcia eximia, c^. \. some black points just before terraen between it and tornus ; cilia with some black at base oji apical half. Hind wing pure white with a series of black points at base of cilia. Underside of fore wing white with a blackish spot beyond upper angle of cell. 2 . Fore wing with the medial patch silvery white edged with black. Ilah. BoRXEO, Sarawak (TFrtZZac^). 1 c?, 1 $ ^jpe ; Pulo Laut (Doherii/), 1 c?. Kvj^. 20 millim. 6835. Titulcia confictella. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 27.) Tirulcia confictella, Wlk. xsix. 811 (1864). Chioiiomem qimista, Swinh. A. M. N. H. ((>) xii. p. (1893). Head orange tinged with rufous ; thorax silvery white with some orange at base of tegulaj ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the fore (ibiae and tarsi orange tinged with rufous; the crest on 2nd segment of abdomen orange. Pore wing orange tinged with rufous ;• a triangular silvery white patch slightly edged with blackish on basal area from below costa to inner margin, a similar patch with minutely waved edges from below costa at middle to inner margin, its outer edge strongly excurved to near termen at vein 5, then oblique ; a small subterminal silvery white patch from below costa to vein G, its outer edge sinuous. Hind Aving and underside of fore wing pure Avhite. Ilah. Straits Settlements, Johore, 1 $ {\\)(i queusta ; Singapore (Ridltn/), 1 cJ ; Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 $ type. £".. 22 millim. G83G.


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