. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ELVESIA. EHTKCHAGL^A. 435 irrorated with S'rey. Hind wing pale rufous suffused with brown except on costal and terminal areas : a waved rufous terminal line ; cilia greyish at tips ; the underside yellowish, the costal half suffused with rufous, a small blackish discoidal spot, slightly sinuous post- medial line, and indistinct diffused subterminal band. Hah. SiKHiM, Tonglo, 10,000' (Elwes), type f 2 in Coll. Elwes. Ed'}}. 32 millim. Genus EHYNCHAGL^A, nov. Type, B. sciiula. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2ncl joint
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ELVESIA. EHTKCHAGL^A. 435 irrorated with S'rey. Hind wing pale rufous suffused with brown except on costal and terminal areas : a waved rufous terminal line ; cilia greyish at tips ; the underside yellowish, the costal half suffused with rufous, a small blackish discoidal spot, slightly sinuous post- medial line, and indistinct diffused subterminal band. Hah. SiKHiM, Tonglo, 10,000' (Elwes), type f 2 in Coll. Elwes. Ed'}}. 32 millim. Genus EHYNCHAGL^A, nov. Type, B. sciiula. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2ncl joint oblique to just beyond the large frontal tuft and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long, porreet, and dilated at extremity ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennie of male minutely ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the tegulce pro- duced to a slight dorsal ridge, the thorax without distinct crests ; pectus clothed with long hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced, the termen slightly crenulate, somewhat excurved at middle, then oblique ; veins o and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 2640. Ehynchaglaea scitula. Xyloiyliasia scitula, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 359 (1879). S . Head and thorax dark purple-brown mixed with rufous ; tarsi fuscous ringed with rufous ; abdomen fuscous brown, the yentral surface pale rufous with sublateral black spots on two medial segments. Fore wing dark purple-brown, the basal and post- medial areas rufous and with numerous dark striae ; subbasal line represented by two slight strife from costa; antemedial line in- distinctly double, filled in with rufous on inner area, minut
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