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. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CINCIA.—MAHENSIA. 701 vei'tex of head and metathorax with black patches ; antennae yellow- ish white with the basal joint black in front; abdomen pink suffused with fuscous, the base whitish. Fore wing' pale pink thickly irrorated and in places suffused with black; the veins black; the costal area pinker. Hind wing* of male white, the costal and apical areas suffused with fuscous, of female wholly suffused with fuscous. Hab. Cuba, Santiago, 1 9 > Mutijas, (Schaits), 1 <S type. Exp. 6 2d, $ 26milliin. *828 b. Cincia muel
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CINCIA.—MAHENSIA. 701 vei'tex of head and metathorax with black patches ; antennae yellow- ish white with the basal joint black in front; abdomen pink suffused with fuscous, the base whitish. Fore wing' pale pink thickly irrorated and in places suffused with black; the veins black; the costal area pinker. Hind wing* of male white, the costal and apical areas suffused with fuscous, of female wholly suffused with fuscous. Hab. Cuba, Santiago, 1 9 > Mutijas, (Schaits), 1 <S type. Exp. 6 2d, $ 26milliin. *828 b. Cincia muelleri. Hypoprepia muelleri, Dyar, J. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 51 (1907). Antennae of male sei'rate. cS. Head and thorax fuscous brown, the shoulders with small pale crimson patches ; abdomen fuscous brown with some pale crimson hairs at base of dorsum and crimson patch at extremity. Pore wing fuscous brown, rather thinly scaled, a small pale crimson patch at base of inner area. Hind wing whitish tinged. Fig. 224.—Cincia muelleri, tf. with pale crimson except on terminal area which is suffused with brown. Ilab. Mexico, Mexico City (Miiller), type t c* in Nat. Mus. Eoop, 30 millim. Genus MAHENSIA. Type. Malxensia, Fryer, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool. xv. p. 5 (1912) .. seychellarum. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned and reaching to vertex of head, slender ; antennas of male ciliated; tibiaa with the spurs long. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell, curved at base; 3, 4 stalked; 5 absent; G, 7 stalked; 8, !» absent ; 10, 11 from cell; male with a large patch of rufous androconia in end of cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well beyond middle of cell; 3, 4 coincident, :> absent; the terminal part of subcostal nervuro arched and the discocellulars short; vein 7 from well before end of cell; 8 from middle of cell ; male with a patch of rufous androconia in end of cell on upper ide. In key differs from Labobasis, in
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