. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. rsrcnoMORPiiA. 425 antennje of male hipectinale witli inoderate branches to apex ; thorax clothed witli rough hair onlj and without crests; tibia; fringed with long hair; abdomen clothed with rough hair and without crests. Fore wing with tlie apex rect- angular, the ternien evenly curved and not crcnulate ; veins ^ 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 luiddle of discocellulars ; IS, 7
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. rsrcnoMORPiiA. 425 antennje of male hipectinale witli inoderate branches to apex ; thorax clothed witli rough hair onlj and without crests; tibia; fringed with long hair; abdomen clothed with rough hair and without crests. Fore wing with tlie apex rect- angular, the ternien evenly curved and not crcnulate ; veins ^ 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 luiddle of discocellulars ; IS, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Hind wing with the red area brilliant cupreous red and extending to termen euryrlmda, E. Hind wing with the red area orange-red, leaving a black terminal band efiinenis. 4897. Psychomorpha eiiryrhoda, n. sp. (Plate CXLYI. fig. 7.) (5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with some metallic blue scales. Fore wing brown suffused with cupreous red and irrorated Avith some silvery blue scales ; anteraedial line indistinct, formed by diffused silvery blue scales, oblique from costa to vein 1 ; a patch of silvery blue scales above middle of vein 1 ; orbicular indistinctly defined by diffused silvery blue scales, round ; a broad somewhat oblique postmedial white band narrowing to costa and vein 1 where it terminates, its inner edge hooked at lower angle of cell, its outer edge excurved ; a diffused curved slightly waved subterminal silvery blue line ; a terminal series of slight patches of blue-white scales. Hind wing fiery crimson-red ; the basal area dark brown with very irregular outer edge, on inner margin extending to near tornus; cilia dark brown. Underside of fore wing with the basal half of costal area suffused with silvery blue ; a wedge-shaped bluish white patch in middle of cell and curved bar near its extremity, the postmedial band as above ; hind wing with the costa narrowly brown suffused with silvery
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