. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 400 ARCTIADiE. *185«. Scoliacma aroa. Scoliacma aroa, , Nov. Zool. xi. p. 416 (1904). Fore wing of male without costal fold ; vein 1 slightly bent up- wards at middle and connected by a bar with vein 2 ; hind wing with costal fold on basal bad' of costa below with some roue:h hair. Fig. 84.âScoliacma aroa, J. f. below it. the apical part of costa excised, veins 6, 7 stalked, 8 from cell. S â Very pale yellowish. Fore wing with diffused brownish patch beyond the cell from costa to vein 3 ; the apical part of term
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 400 ARCTIADiE. *185«. Scoliacma aroa. Scoliacma aroa, , Nov. Zool. xi. p. 416 (1904). Fore wing of male without costal fold ; vein 1 slightly bent up- wards at middle and connected by a bar with vein 2 ; hind wing with costal fold on basal bad' of costa below with some roue:h hair. Fig. 84.âScoliacma aroa, J. f. below it. the apical part of costa excised, veins 6, 7 stalked, 8 from cell. S â Very pale yellowish. Fore wing with diffused brownish patch beyond the cell from costa to vein 3 ; the apical part of termen slightly tinged with brown. Hind wing rather paler. Hob. Br. N. Guinea, Up. Aroa R. {Meek), type f 6 i" Coll. Rothschild. JEcep. 22 millim. *lS5b. Scoliacma apiciplaga. (Plate XXV. fig. 20.) Melansema apiciplaga, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 203 (1913). d â Head, thorax, and abdomen very pale yellow; antennae brownish except towards base ; fore and mid tibia' brown in front. Fore wing pale yellow with a fuscous brown patch in and beyond end of cell extending from the costa to vein '.} and shading to paler brown at termen. Hind wing pale yellow. Underside of fore wing with the whole terminal area suffused with brown. ilab. Dutch N. Guinea, Oetakwa R., Snow Mts. (Meek), type f d in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 millim. 187. Scoliacma brunnea, insert (syns.) :â llema hades, , Nov. Zool. xi. p. 420, pi. v. f. 14 (1904). Nishada brunnea, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 210 (1912). Fore wing of male with large costal fold on underside extending to well beyond middle, the area below the cell clothed with whitish androconia except- towards termen ; vein 1 giving off an obliquely curved spur from middle to middle of vein 2; 3, 4 from cell; 6 from below angle of discocellulars. Hind wing with the costal half clothed with whitish androconia on upperside; vein 2 from towards base of cell; veins 6, 7 coincident, the basal half of sub-. Please note that these images are extrac
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