. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. CHLUJIETIA. 07 by a waved sti-iga from costa and oblique waved line with a dark shale beyond it from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- medial line djuble, rather diffLised, red-brown, obli juely excurved and very slightly waved, the outer line slightly defined by white; terminal area with some dark sufFusion, the subterminal line being. Fig. 24.—Chlumetia alternans, (^. \. represented by white scaling broadly and irregularly diffused from costa to vein 3; a terminal series of black-brown strioe; cilia cheq
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. CHLUJIETIA. 07 by a waved sti-iga from costa and oblique waved line with a dark shale beyond it from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- medial line djuble, rather diffLised, red-brown, obli juely excurved and very slightly waved, the outer line slightly defined by white; terminal area with some dark sufFusion, the subterminal line being. Fig. 24.—Chlumetia alternans, (^. \. represented by white scaling broadly and irregularly diffused from costa to vein 3; a terminal series of black-brown strioe; cilia chequered whitish and black. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; a slight whitish stri^a below extremity of vein 3 ; cilia with white line at base and wliite tips ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal point, indistinct oblique minutely waved medial and postmedial lines, double subterminal line, and a terminal series of black points, 5 . Pal[)i whiter, blackish at base, tegulse more rufous ; fore wing with an olive-green tinge except on basal and terminal areas. Ilah. SiKHur, 18U0' XDwlgeori, Moller), 1 J, 4 ? . Exji. 2S-30 millim. 6276. Chlumetia cana, n. sp. (Plate CLXXX. fig. 5.) 2 . Head white, the palpi with some gre)-, the antennas grey- brown ; thorax grey mixed with some brown ; abdomen gre3'-white with slight dark irroration, the ventral surface white towards base. Fore wiiig pale grey with slight dark irroration, the antemedial area with a pale rufous tinge except at inner margin ; a faint dark medial line, excurved to median nervure, then oblique ; reniform very indistinct, whitish, elliptical, with dark points on its inner and outer sides above : ])ostmedial line indistinct, double, curved, some white points beyond it on costa with blackish streaks between them ; subterminal line very indistinct, curved, tinged with rufous towards costa ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white irrorated with brown ; the terminal area tinged with bro
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