. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 480 XOCTUID-K. purplish pink ; faint traces of a postmcdial series of black points on the veins ; cilia rufous, with a fine pale line at base. Hind â wing ochreous, suffused with reddish fuscous especially towards terraen ; the cilia rufous ; the underside pale suffused with purple- pink, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line diffused outwardly to tormen except at apex. Hah. Tasmania (not ), 1 S type. Exp. 46 millim. Skct. II. Aiitenn.'B of male ciliated. A. Palpi of male with spreading tuft of liair from
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 480 XOCTUID-K. purplish pink ; faint traces of a postmcdial series of black points on the veins ; cilia rufous, with a fine pale line at base. Hind â wing ochreous, suffused with reddish fuscous especially towards terraen ; the cilia rufous ; the underside pale suffused with purple- pink, a dark discoidal spot and postmedial line diffused outwardly to tormen except at apex. Hah. Tasmania (not ), 1 S type. Exp. 46 millim. Skct. II. Aiitenn.'B of male ciliated. A. Palpi of male with spreading tuft of liair from npperiide of 2ncl joint. *18:31. CirpMs pilipalpis. Bdiophila pilipalpis, Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 415 (1875); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 189. $. Head and thorax pale flesh-colour irrorated with black scak'S, the tegulac yellowish ; abdomen whitish, the ventral surface. Fii;. lAQ.âCiiyhi^pilipalpis, cj". t- irrorated with a few black scales. Fore wing pale flesh-colour, rather deeper in discal fold towards postmedial line and rather strongly irrorated with black ; the costal edge white ; antemedial line represented by two dark points on inner area ; a pale discoidal bar slightly angled inwards on vein 1 and with black point in lower angle of cell and diffused fuscous patch beyond it; postmedial line fuscous, highly crenulate, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely curved; a terminal series of points. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; the cilia white ; underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, some black points on termeu. Hah. , Ulorida, in Coll. Schaus, Appalaohicola. Exp. 46 millim. B. Palpi of male normal. a. Mid tibifc of male with thick fringes of hair on both sides ; abdomen thickly clothed with woolly hair, the anal tuft very large. a^. Fore tibiae of male and first two joints of tarsi with very thick fringes of long hair; the hind tibiae with thick fringes of bair ou both sides.
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