. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 540 Genus SCROBIGERA. Type. Scrohigera, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 37 (1896) am%tnx. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd well developed ; frons with small rounded pi'ominence ; antennae almost simple and slightly dilated before apex; tibias nearly smoothly scaled ; elaspers of male large and tufted with hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of Ci41; 5 from above angle ; B fr
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 540 Genus SCROBIGERA. Type. Scrohigera, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 37 (1896) am%tnx. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd well developed ; frons with small rounded pi'ominence ; antennae almost simple and slightly dilated before apex; tibias nearly smoothly scaled ; elaspers of male large and tufted with hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of Ci41; 5 from above angle ; B from upper angle ; 9, !â ) anastomosing with 7, 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars which are angled outwards at its origin ; 6, 7 from upper angle; male with a fringe of long black hair on upperside iu discal fold, in and beyond end of cell. A. Hind wing with orange band in both sexes. a. Fore wing with four yellowish spots beyond the cell amatrix. b. Fore wing with yellowish bar beyond the cell proxima. c. Fore wing without spots or bar beyond the cell hssperioides. B. Hind wing with orange band in male, without band in female vcvcillans. C. Hind wing without orange band in either sex. a. Fore wing with oblique orange band semperi. h. Fore wing with oblique white band niveifasciata. c. Fore wing with medial series of yellowish spots, and four spots beyond the cell vulcania. d. Fore wing without band or spots cdbomarginata. 30. Scrobigera amatrix. Eusemia amatrix, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 68, pi. 33. f. 4 (1848); Hi Moths Ind. ii. p. 149 ; Kirby. Cat. Het. p. 28. Eusemia aruna, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 288 (1859); Butl. 111. Het. B. M v. p. 18, pi. 82. f. 6; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 28. Fig. 239.â So'obigera amatrix, (5". (S. Black ; palpi, frons, and tegiilae orange with a few black hairs ; legs mostly orange ; abdomen orange, with the base and segmental lines on dorsal surface
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