. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 2G5 Genus PYDNAODES. I ype. Pydnaodes, Hmpsn. A. M. X. H. (8) viii. p. 407 (1911) dislincta. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching tomiddle <if frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex; fore tibiaa fringed with hair, the hind tibiae with two pair- of spurs ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum. Fore wing with the apes somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curve 1 ; ve
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 2G5 Genus PYDNAODES. I ype. Pydnaodes, Hmpsn. A. M. X. H. (8) viii. p. 407 (1911) dislincta. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching tomiddle <if frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex; fore tibiaa fringed with hair, the hind tibiae with two pair- of spurs ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum. Fore wing with the apes somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curve 1 ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8. 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing- with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; 6. 7 from upper angle ; 8 reduced to a spur from middle of cell. In key differs from Tricypha in the hind wing having veins 6, 7 from angle of cell and 8 reduced to a spur from middle of cell. 1171 a. Pydnaodes distincta. Tess ' : ! disti i, Roths. X. H. (8) iv. p. 207 (1909); id. Nov. Zool. xvii. pi. 12. f. 6. 6 â Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous, the patagia creamy white; shaft of antennae whitish towards base, the branches In-own; palpi brown at sides; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown ; a rufous medial patch above vein 1. rounded above, where it is defined by black; a creamy white antemedial band slightly defined by dark scales from costa to the rufous patch, then running along vein 1 to base; postmedial. Fig. 77. -Pydnaodes distiticta, q. ]. line formed by a yellowish white spot on costa with some blackish scales before it. a slight lunule above vein b* and oblique stri^a below it, oblique and slightly defined by black on inner side from vein 5 to the upper edge of the rufous patch, then bent outwards and ter- minating above vein 1 ; the inner margin creamy white except toward
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