. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 506 AECTIAD^, jiervure and vein 1 ; a black point in middle of cell and a prominent discoidal spot; an indistinct line from costa just beyond middle, strongly bent outwards round the discoidal spot, then minutely dentate ; a very strongly curved postmtdial series of points with a large spot at costa ; a spot on costa before apex, another on middle of termen, and a point above tornus. Iliad wing with discoidal point. IJah. SiKKit-v Leone {Clemtnts), 1 S type. Exp. 18 millim. Genus PHILENORA. Type. Phi/enora, Eoscnst. A. M. N. H.


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 506 AECTIAD^, jiervure and vein 1 ; a black point in middle of cell and a prominent discoidal spot; an indistinct line from costa just beyond middle, strongly bent outwards round the discoidal spot, then minutely dentate ; a very strongly curved postmtdial series of points with a large spot at costa ; a spot on costa before apex, another on middle of termen, and a point above tornus. Iliad wing with discoidal point. IJah. SiKKit-v Leone {Clemtnts), 1 S type. Exp. 18 millim. Genus PHILENORA. Type. Phi/enora, Eoscnst. A. M. N. H. (5) xvi. p. 382 (1885) undukm. Scieodora, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. Js. S. W. (2) i. p. 731 (18Aro^«, Kirby, Cat. llet. p. 3;i2 (1893) unicolor. Biphtherai^pis, Meyr. P. R. Soc. Qnpensland, viii. p. 74 (1894), rnudk-a. Bettuuia, Butl. P. Z. S. 1»98, p. 418 unkvlor. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not or hardly reaching beyond frons ; antenna; of male ciliated ; tibiie with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with routrli hair. Fore wing with the costa arched, the termen short; vein 2 fmm middle of cell; 3 from long before angle ; 5 from above angle; (i from below upper angle; 7, 8 stalked; 9, 10 stalked; 11 free, oblique. Ilind wing with vein 2 from long before angl^ of cell; 3 from near angle; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. Sect. I. (Xofafa). Fore wing narrow ; male with large elliiDtical patch of black androconia lu, below, and beyond cell of fore wing on under- side, and a similar patch cu. upperside of hind wing below costa. A. Fore wing with postmedial line modica. B. P'ore wing without postmedial line parva. 1085. Philenora modica. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 23.) Liphtheraspis modicus, Lucas, P. R. Soc. Queensland, viii. p. 74 (1894). Pale straw-yeUow. Fore wing with fuscous postmedial line inwardly oblique from costa to vein 6, then erect aud expanding somewhat at inner margin ; the patches of androconia on uuderoide of fore wing and uppersid


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