. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. ^G9 Genus ELESMA. Type. Elesma, Wlk. xxxii. r>03(18r)5) siihfjlauca. Amaloptera, Turner, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aiistr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903) . subglauca. Proboscis fulij developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with liair in front, the .3rd short with slight tuft of hair in front; frons smooth with large tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennce of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. ^G9 Genus ELESMA. Type. Elesma, Wlk. xxxii. r>03(18r)5) siihfjlauca. Amaloptera, Turner, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aiistr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903) . subglauca. Proboscis fulij developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with liair in front, the .3rd short with slight tuft of hair in front; frons smooth with large tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennce of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crests; tibi« slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, tlie a))ex rectangular, the terinen evenly curved and not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; (» from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 on a long stalk ; 10. 11 from cell. Hind wing witii veins 3, 4 on a long stalk ; 5 fully developed from just above angle of cell; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 0688. Elesma subglauca. Elesma suhijlauca, Wlk. xxxii. 608 (18G5). Metaptilaphiloniela, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxv. p. 31 (1900). Amaloptila triorbis. Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903). Head and tegulae whitish irrorated with fuscous; thorax grey irrorated with black; abdomen whitish. Fore wing grey finely irrorated with black; the aiitemedial line black, very oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved and angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular small, round, defined by black ; black- edged lunules on median and subcostal nervures before end of cell. Fig. 137.—Elesma snhglaKca, J. \. and on discocellulars, with raised brown scales in centres; post- medial line fine, waved, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then strongly incurved and minutely dentate ; subterminal line greyish defined on inner side by black, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7, incurved at discal
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