. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 50 AECTIABiE. dentate subterminal whitish line and series of white points on termen. Hind wing pale fuscous. Hah. China, Chekiang (Fryer), 1 5 , Foochau ; Assam, Khasis, 1 (S t^'pe. Exj). 24 millim. Genus DIALITHOPTERA, nov. Type, D. gemmata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint roughly scaled above and below, the 3rd minute ; maxillary palpi minute; frons veith tuft of scales; anteiiniiB in both sexes bipec-tinate, the apical fourth serrate, the basal joi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 50 AECTIABiE. dentate subterminal whitish line and series of white points on termen. Hind wing pale fuscous. Hah. China, Chekiang (Fryer), 1 5 , Foochau ; Assam, Khasis, 1 (S t^'pe. Exj). 24 millim. Genus DIALITHOPTERA, nov. Type, D. gemmata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint roughly scaled above and below, the 3rd minute ; maxillary palpi minute; frons veith tuft of scales; anteiiniiB in both sexes bipec-tinate, the apical fourth serrate, the basal joint with of scales; tibias with the spurs long. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, and 10 stalked, 9 absent, male with a fovea covered on upperside by a scale-flap above base of vein 10; 11 oblique. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked from angle of cf 11; 5 from near middle of discocellulars : 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 103. Dialithoptera gemmata. Fisara gemmata, Hmpsu. Moths Ind. iv. p. 506 (1896); Dudgeon, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1899, pi. ii. f. 29. Head white; palpi at sides, lower part of frons, and branches of antennae blackish brown ; thorax yellowish white ; pectus and legs fuscous ; abdomen white tinged with fuscous. Fore wing yel- lowish white, the costal half suffused with brown and fuscous to middle; silvery blue raised scales on basal Fig. lo.—Bialithojotera gemmata, S- !• a'^^a on costa and below cell, on medial part of costal area and on the tufts of scales at upper and lower angles of cell; the postmedial line formed by silvery blue tufts of scales, obtusely angled below costa and slightly angled inwards above vei)i 2 ; the terminal area suffused with brown and fuscous except towards costa ; the subterminal line irregularly sinuous, retracted to costa and witb tufts of silvery blue scales on it. Hind wing fuscous. Hah. SiKHiM, 1800-3000 ft. {Dudgeon, PUclier), 2 c^,
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