. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 322 NOCTTJIDJE. costa to vein 6, then hardly traceable, waved, some short red streaks beyond it on costa and a streak on vein 9 ; traces of a rather punctiform reddish subtermiiial line ; cilia red. Hind wing purplish pink, tinged with brownish towards base ; a black spot at tornus defined above by a whitish lunule; cilia pale pink ; the underside with diffused dark postmedial line excurved below costa, then oblique. //rt6. Burma, (Z>o7«e/-///), type f 5 in Coll. Rothschild. 36 niillim. 6627. Arachno
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 322 NOCTTJIDJE. costa to vein 6, then hardly traceable, waved, some short red streaks beyond it on costa and a streak on vein 9 ; traces of a rather punctiform reddish subtermiiial line ; cilia red. Hind wing purplish pink, tinged with brownish towards base ; a black spot at tornus defined above by a whitish lunule; cilia pale pink ; the underside with diffused dark postmedial line excurved below costa, then oblique. //rt6. Burma, (Z>o7«e/-///), type f 5 in Coll. Rothschild. 36 niillim. 6627. Arachnognatha metascotia. Arachnoqnatha metascotia, Hrapsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 451 (1897). Head and thorax greyish brown ; tegulae and patagia olive-green, the latter edged with brown above; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the fore tibiae greenish; abdomen whitish tinged with brown especially towards extremity, the crests brown. Fore wing olive-green, the basal and inner areas with some brown suffusion and irroration except at tornus; a waved dark line close to base from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown, waved, curved, with dark spot at inner margin, an elongate dentate loop beyond it on vein 1 ; a point of raised dark scales in middle of cell; i-eniform defined by brown and with some brown in centre, round ; an oblique brownish medial shade from costa to reniform ;. Fig. 116.—Arachnognatha metascotia, c?. |. postmedial line whitish to discal fold and oblique to vein 6, below vein 5 brown, dentate, and inwardly oblique with whitish striga at inner margin, some minute brown streaks and whitish irroration beyond it on costa and a streak below vein 8; subterminal line formed of dentate brown marks defined slightly on outer side by whitish, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of blackish points; cilia brown. Hind wing greyish brown, the inner margin suffused with blackish towards tornus and with white post
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