. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. BLENINA. GRYPOSOBA. 423 vein 2, bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 and bent outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by green and with blackish spot at tornus, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points; cilia white with a series of brown spots. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia with fine white line at base and whitish tips; the underside brownish white, the terminal area fuscous
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. BLENINA. GRYPOSOBA. 423 vein 2, bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 and bent outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by green and with blackish spot at tornus, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points; cilia white with a series of brown spots. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia with fine white line at base and whitish tips; the underside brownish white, the terminal area fuscous from apex to submedian fold. Hah. Philippines, Luzon, 1 J type; Pclo Laut (Doherty), 1 $; Talaux (Z)(;7te;-<y), 1 J. Exy. 24-30 miilim. Genus GRYPOSOBA, nov. Type, G. catagrapha. Proboscis rather small; pal}Di obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and ratlier broadly scaled in front and behind, the 3rd fihort; frons smooth, with tuIt of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated, the basal joint with tuft of hair in front; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the prothorax with crest, the metathorax with very long crest projecting backwards; fore tibia; fringed with hair on outer side, the mid tibia; moderately frmged with hair, the hind tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with tiie apex rounded, the termen excised above tornus where there is a scale-tooth, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 6766. Gryposoba catagrapha. Cyniatophoropsis catagrapha, Turner, Trans. Eoy. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 7 (1903). Thyatira diiiawa, , Nov. Zool. xi. p. 381, pi. v. f. 43 (1904). f? . Head and thorax dark brown ; teguLie and patagia
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