. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EPiaRTPEEA.—TROGATHA. 283 incurved below discal fold; subterminal line pale, angled outwards below costa and inwards at discal fold, excurved and suffused with blackish between veins 5 and 2 and ending at tornus ; some blackish on middle of termen : cilia rufous with some black at middle and a. Pig. 84.—Epigrypera eriogona, S- I- fine pale line at base. Hind wing rufous, the cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside whitish suffused with brown, traces of a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. BoKMEo,


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EPiaRTPEEA.—TROGATHA. 283 incurved below discal fold; subterminal line pale, angled outwards below costa and inwards at discal fold, excurved and suffused with blackish between veins 5 and 2 and ending at tornus ; some blackish on middle of termen : cilia rufous with some black at middle and a. Pig. 84.—Epigrypera eriogona, S- I- fine pale line at base. Hind wing rufous, the cilia with a fine pale line at base; the underside whitish suffused with brown, traces of a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. BoKMEo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 d type; Pulo Laux (Doherty), 1 (S . Exj[>. 22 millim. 5426. Epigrypera argentlcincta, n. sp, (Plate CLVII. fig. 6.) 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged with pale rufous; palpi and frons bright rufous. Fore wing greyish tinged with,pale rufous and irrorated with silvery scales, the medial area slightly irrorated with black, tbe terminal area suffused with deep rufous; subbaaal and antemedial black points on costa; an inverted conical rufous patch at end of cell with oblique black striga above its extremity from costa; postmedial line pale, excurved below costa and at middle and slightly incurved at discal and submedian folds; subterminal line pale with a silvery gloss, slightly excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at middle, then incurved, some blackish on it at middle; cilia rufous with some black at middle, a whitish line at base and some whitish towards tornus. Hind wing yellowish, the basal half suffused with brown ; a blackish discoidal bar and diffused blackish line from cell to inner margin; an indistinct diffused rufous postmedial line; a series of rufous striae before termen; the underside ochreous white, the basal half suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous, a faint brownish postmedial shade. Hah. Selangoe, Kuala Lumpur (Durham), 1 § type. Exp. 22 millim. Genus THOGATHA, nov. Type, T. pcecil


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