. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MIGOl'LASTIS.—PAKArLASTIS. 507 coxae with black points; legs striped with fuscous; abdomen strongly tinged with orange-yellow, a dorsal series of black bands and lateral and sublateral series of points. Fore wing very slightly tinged with fuscous; two black points ab base. Hind wing and underside of fore wing strongly tinged with fuscous. Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya ((^/-g^n), 1 c?, 2 $ type. Ex^., 6 50, $ 52 millim. Sect. II. {Migoplastis). Hind wing of male with tb
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MIGOl'LASTIS.—PAKArLASTIS. 507 coxae with black points; legs striped with fuscous; abdomen strongly tinged with orange-yellow, a dorsal series of black bands and lateral and sublateral series of points. Fore wing very slightly tinged with fuscous; two black points ab base. Hind wing and underside of fore wing strongly tinged with fuscous. Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya ((^/-g^n), 1 c?, 2 $ type. Ex^., 6 50, $ 52 millim. Sect. II. {Migoplastis). Hind wing of male with tbe terraen not excised ; antennae with the branches long. 2125. Migoplastis correcta. Hypsa correcta, Wlk. xxxi. 217(1864); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 44 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 393. Migcplastis ceylonica, Feld. Verb, Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 285 (1868); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 54, pi. 100. f. Fig. 227.—Migoplastis correcta, (^. \. Head and thorax brown; palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints blackish; vertex of head, tegulae, shoulders, pro- meso- and meta- thorax, pectus and fore coxae with black points ; abdomen orange, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black points, the ventral surface tinged with brown. Pore wing brown, with obscure paler band across and beyond end of cell from costa to vein 1, slightly angled at median nervure, then oblique. Hind wing orange-yellow. JIab. Ceylon, Pundaloya (Green), 2 (S, 2 $, type. Krp. 52 millim. Genus PARAPLASTIS, nov. Type, P. hampsoni. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd somewhat porrect; irons with slight txift of hair; antennae bipectinate with moderate branches in both sexes; tibire with the spurs short. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell;
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