. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PHTTOMETRA. 499 *8329. Phytometra cebeana. Polychrisia keheana, , Not. Zool. xiii. p. 271 (190S). 6 . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with reddish brown ; abdomen grey-brown with the lateral fringes of hair rufous. Fore wing brownish grey with slight dark irroration, the medial area suffused with golden bronze except towards costa, the postmedial area except towards costa and the terminal area except at tornus with golden and bronze suffusion; subbasal line represented by slight double oblique rufous striae from c
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PHTTOMETRA. 499 *8329. Phytometra cebeana. Polychrisia keheana, , Not. Zool. xiii. p. 271 (190S). 6 . Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with reddish brown ; abdomen grey-brown with the lateral fringes of hair rufous. Fore wing brownish grey with slight dark irroration, the medial area suffused with golden bronze except towards costa, the postmedial area except towards costa and the terminal area except at tornus with golden and bronze suffusion; subbasal line represented by slight double oblique rufous striae from costa and cell; a slight double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, interrupted in cell, then oblique; orbicular with slight whitish annulus, narrow,. Fig. 124.—Phytometra ceheana, (^. \. oblique elliptical; reniform very indistinctly defined, constricted at middle ; the stigma below the cell consisting of a U-shaped silvery spot filled in with silver and round spot beyond its lower extremity, both slightly defined by dark brown; postmedial line double, obsolescent towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then incurved, excurved between veins 4, 3, then again incurved; subterminal line defined by golden bronze on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, a narrow whitish terminal band and fine waved brown terminal line ; cilia pale. Hind wing silky grey tinged with rufous except on terminal area ; the underside suffused and iri'orated with rufous except on terminal area and with indistinct diffused dark postmedial and subterminal bands. Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), type f c5" in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Ex]). 46 millim. D. Abdomen of male with expansile medial lateral tufts of long hair con- tained in a fold, the unal tuft small. 8330. Phytometra acuta. Phisia acuta, Wlk. xii. 922 (1857). Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish, the tegulse with blackish medial line, the tegulse and patagia with whitish tips and the latter with oblique whitis
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