. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. DASTSTEEX DM. HTPXOTYPE. 411 with fuscous brown. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated and suffused with olive-fuscous ; faint traces of a subbasal line ; an indistinct double, waved, anteraedial line ; orbicular and reniform lyale, very ill-defined, the former somewhat triangular, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a very indistinct medial shade; postmedial line defined by pale grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then irregularly dentate, incurved at discal. Fig. 138.—Basystcmum tihctana, (S. \.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. DASTSTEEX DM. HTPXOTYPE. 411 with fuscous brown. Fore wing blue-grey thickly irrorated and suffused with olive-fuscous ; faint traces of a subbasal line ; an indistinct double, waved, anteraedial line ; orbicular and reniform lyale, very ill-defined, the former somewhat triangular, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a very indistinct medial shade; postmedial line defined by pale grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then irregularly dentate, incurved at discal. Fig. 138.—Basystcmum tihctana, (S. \. fold, oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold ; traces of a Eubterminal line slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia white ; the underside grey irrorated with brown, traces of a diffused postmedial line. JTah. Tibet, Kuku Noor, 1 ^, Amdo; W. China, Ta-chien-lu, 83U0' (Pratt), 1 $ . 40 millim. Genus HYPNOTYPE, nov. Type^ H. placciis. Pi'oboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with liair in fi-ont; frona smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax clutlied almost entirely with scales, the tegnla3 produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiae thickly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Pore wing with the teriueu evenly curved ; veins .3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 2605. Hypnotype placens. Dqihihcra placcns, Wlk. xi. 708 (18o7). $ . Head and thorax white mixed with black scales; sides of palpi and frons mostly black; tegulse pale olive at base shading into rufous and with white tips; tibiae and tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen dirty white irrorated w
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