. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 12() â NOCXUID^. Genus. BUCIARA. Biwiam, Wlk. Char. Uudescr. Het. p. 3G (1869) Type. bipartita. Proboscis fully developed: palpi upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect, rather long ; frons smooth ; antennae of male bii^ectinate with moderate branches to three-fourths, the apical part simple; prothorax with sjireadiug crest, metathorax with large crest; iiiud tibiai with one spine between the spurs; abdomen with dorsal crests on 2nd and oi-d segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from n


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 12() â NOCXUID^. Genus. BUCIARA. Biwiam, Wlk. Char. Uudescr. Het. p. 3G (1869) Type. bipartita. Proboscis fully developed: palpi upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect, rather long ; frons smooth ; antennae of male bii^ectinate with moderate branches to three-fourths, the apical part simple; prothorax with sjireadiug crest, metathorax with large crest; iiiud tibiai with one spine between the spurs; abdomen with dorsal crests on 2nd and oi-d segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 0 froQi upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from cell; the inner margin with slight scale-teeth near base and towards tornus, the termen crenulate and slightly angled at vein 3. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; the terraen crenulate and excised at discal fold. 223. Buciara bipartita. Buciara bipartita, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 36 (1869). Actiiiotia acnwphora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. <3 . Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish-brown and Ijlack ; palpi and frons with blackish patches ; black streaks across tegulaj; patagia at extremities and metathoracic crest black ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous brown, the crests black. Pore \\ing grey, irrorated with fuscous and suffused in parts with reddish brown;. 42.âBuciara bipartita, $ the subbasal line represented bj^ a double oblique striga from costa ; the autemedial line double, strongly angled outwards below costa and cell and above inner margin and inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; orbicular very narrow, oblique, with brown centre and grey annulus defined by black; reniform with indistinct grey annulus defined by black on inner side ; postmedial line double at costa, then indistinct, angled outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, somewhat dentate at medi


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