. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIITHUNA.âMETEUEA. 123 B. Fore wing with vein 7 from after 10. 237, Mithuna strigifera, n. sp. 2 . Grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey, suffnsed with rcd-1)rowu except on costal and ter- minal areas ; a postmedial black spot on costa, with obscure line from it acutely angled at vein 6, then retracted to middle of vein 1 ; a dark streak in cell; three black points on co?ta Y\;Q>.âMitlmna strigifera, S- \- towards apex, with an oblique streak from the last almost to the angle of postmedial line; a terminal series of black po
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIITHUNA.âMETEUEA. 123 B. Fore wing with vein 7 from after 10. 237, Mithuna strigifera, n. sp. 2 . Grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey, suffnsed with rcd-1)rowu except on costal and ter- minal areas ; a postmedial black spot on costa, with obscure line from it acutely angled at vein 6, then retracted to middle of vein 1 ; a dark streak in cell; three black points on co?ta Y\;Q>.âMitlmna strigifera, S- \- towards apex, with an oblique streak from the last almost to the angle of postmedial line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous. Hah. SiKHiM, 1 ? type, Zell. Coll. Exp. 28 Genus TYLANTHES. Tylanthcs, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. Type. ptochias- Pruboscis fully developed: palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; antennae of male ciliated; tibiffi with the spurs moderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair, lateral tufts of hair on terminal segment, the claspers and anal tuft large. Fore wing rather broad ; male with some rough scales on basal area on underside; a thick tuft of short hair in a fovea below base of vein 2, with a tuft of short hair above it on the broad costal fold which extends to middle of wing; the cell narrow, and the subcostal and median nervures approximated; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell, curved round the fovea; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8,"and 10 stalked, 9 absent; 11 free. Hind wing with costal fold fringed with large scales and with tufts of large scales below it; a very large and thick tuft of hair below middle of costa at end of costal fold ; the median nervure giving off a single vein to costa at functional apex, and the remainder of veins from cell absent, obliterated in the cost il tufts and fold. Tylanthea ptocliiai p. 341. â ^.^fa *238. Tylanthes ptochias. Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 460; Kirby, Cat. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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