. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 484 NOCTTJID^. with rufous and irrorated with brown, a large black discoidal lunule and slightly curved iDOstmedial line. Hob. Japan, Yokohama {Jonas, Fryer, Manley), 4 (5', 5 $ , type. Exi^. -50 millim. Genus ELVESIA. Elwesia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 171 (1894). Type. cliplostigma. Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in front, the 3rd porrect, long, naked and dilated at ex- tremity ; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 484 NOCTTJID^. with rufous and irrorated with brown, a large black discoidal lunule and slightly curved iDOstmedial line. Hob. Japan, Yokohama {Jonas, Fryer, Manley), 4 (5', 5 $ , type. Exi^. -50 millim. Genus ELVESIA. Elwesia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 171 (1894). Type. cliplostigma. Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in front, the 3rd porrect, long, naked and dilated at ex- tremity ; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of female almost simple ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the tegulte produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the thorax with very large triangular crest; tibife slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the termen and cilia very highly crenulated; 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 discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *2639. Elvesia diplostigma. Elwesia di2olostigma, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 172 (1894). $ . Head and thorax bright rufous, the hairs tipped with grey; tegulfe with deeper rufous line near tips which are grey ; tarsi with slight grey rings ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing bright rufous suffused and irrorated with violaceous grey, the terminal area slightly darker, the veins streaked with whitish ; subbasal line whitish slightly defined by brown on each side, oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish slightly defined on each. Fig. 151.—Elvesia di'plostigma, '^. \. side by brown, angled outwards below costa, then oblique; clavi- form, orbicular, and reniform very large, defined by whitish, the 1st extending to median nervure, th
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