. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. NEOCLEPTRIA. EHODOCLEPTRIA. 33 to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved and with indistinct line beyond it; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards below costa, inwards at discal fold, then excurved and with dark mark on its inner side at costa; a terminal series of black points and often some black marks at middle ; cilia chequered fuscous and rufous. Hind wing white, the basal and inner areas someti
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. NEOCLEPTRIA. EHODOCLEPTRIA. 33 to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved and with indistinct line beyond it; the subterminal line pale, angled outwards below costa, inwards at discal fold, then excurved and with dark mark on its inner side at costa; a terminal series of black points and often some black marks at middle ; cilia chequered fuscous and rufous. Hind wing white, the basal and inner areas sometimes tinged with fuscous; a more. Fig. 15.—Kcoclej)tria imndifera, ^. \. or less prominent dark discoidal lunule ; the terminal area black, with diffused inner edge and often with pale subterminal spot at middle ; cilia white, with dark line at base. Underside white; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform stigmata black ; both wings with fuscous postmedial band. Hah. N. Australia, Roebuck B. {J. J. Wall-er), 3 $ ; W. Aus- tralia, Sherlock E,. {Clements), 3 c? > 5 $, Geraldton (Saunders), 2 2; I^- S. Wales, Broken Hill (Lower), 3 c?, 6 $ ; Victoria, Melbourne ; hab. ? 1 c?, 5 ? type. Exp. 32-38 millim. Genus RHODOCLEPTRIA, nov. Type, R. incarnata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd joint short; frons with rounded prominence, with corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of male almost simple; head and thorax clothed with hair, without crests; fore tibiaj short and broad, with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer; mid and hind tibiae spined. Fore wing with veins 3 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 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle 40. Ehodocleptria incarnata. Noctua incarnata, Freyer, Beitr. iii. pi. 256, f. 4 (1839), & iv. pi. 383
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