. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PALl-OXIMA. — 'LLA. 433 double, nearly even, slightly curved and oblique; orbicular and reniforru moderate, with blackish centres and pale brown annuli defined by black; medial li^e excurved from costa to median uervure; postmedial line more or less distinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with a series of short black streaks on the veins beyond it interrupted by white points; some pale points on costa before the subtermiual liue,. Fig'. llo.—Palponima ortkosloides, cJ. \. (Fi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PALl-OXIMA. — 'LLA. 433 double, nearly even, slightly curved and oblique; orbicular and reniforru moderate, with blackish centres and pale brown annuli defined by black; medial li^e excurved from costa to median uervure; postmedial line more or less distinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with a series of short black streaks on the veins beyond it interrupted by white points; some pale points on costa before the subtermiual liue,. Fig'. llo.—Palponima ortkosloides, cJ. \. (Fi-oin Moths Ind. vol. ii.) which is whitish tinged with rufous and very slightly and evenly curved; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside greyer irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. Much paler and greyer; foi-e wing with a series of black spots before the subterminal line and somewhat dentate at middle. —Simla. Hab. PuxJAT?, Mandi (Ilocl-inr/), 3 (5", 5 5 , type, Simla (Nurse), 1 § . Ex^). 32 millim. Genus CLAVIPALPULA. Type. Clavipalpida, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 499 (1892) aurarics. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long, porrect, and somewhat dilated at extremity ; irons smooth ; anteuniE of male strongly ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without distinct crests ; tibi« moderately hairy ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base. Fore wing with the termen crenulate and obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing witii the cell near base only. 1771. Clavipalpula aurariae. T(sniocampa aurarics, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 76, pi. iii. f. 6 (1880); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.
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