. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 126 NOCTtJIDJi:. Genus BUCIARA. Biwiara, Wlli. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 3G (1869), Type. bipccrtita. Proboscis fully developed ; paljsi upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect, rather long ; frons smooth ; antennje of male bipectinate with moderate branches to three-fourths, the apical part simple; prothorax with spreading crest, metathorax with large crest; hind tibite with one spine between the spurs; abdomen with dorsal crests on 2nd and 3rd segments. Fore wing with ve
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 126 NOCTtJIDJi:. Genus BUCIARA. Biwiara, Wlli. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 3G (1869), Type. bipccrtita. Proboscis fully developed ; paljsi upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect, rather long ; frons smooth ; antennje of male bipectinate with moderate branches to three-fourths, the apical part simple; prothorax with spreading crest, metathorax with large crest; hind tibite with one spine between the spurs; abdomen with dorsal crests on 2nd and 3rd segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 froni 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell; the inner margin with slight scale-teeth near base and towards torn us, the termen crenulate and slightly angled at vein 3. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; the termen crenulate and excised at discal fold. 223. Biiciara bipartita. Buciara bipartita, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 36 (1869). Actinotia acmophora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. c5". Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish-brown and black ; palpi and frons with blackish patches ; black streaks across tegulse; patagia at extremities and metathoracic crest black; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with fuscous brown, the crests black. Pore wing grey, irrorated with fuscous and suifused in parts with reddish brown;. Fig. 4:2.—Buciara bipartita, $ . \. the subbasal line represented by a double oblique striga from costa ; the autemedial line double, strongly angled outAvards below costa and cell and above inner margin and inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; orbicular very narrow, oblique, with brown centre and grey annulus defined by black; reniform with indistinct grey anuulus defined by black on inner side; postmedial line double at costa, then indistinct, angled outwards below costa, incurved at discal fol
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