. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHALEN-ATA. 363 Genus CHALENATA. Type. Chalenata, Wlk. xxx. 1001 (1864) micaccella. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd small; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CHALEN-ATA. 363 Genus CHALENATA. Type. Chalenata, Wlk. xxx. 1001 (1864) micaccella. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd small; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, veins 3 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 very shortly stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex serrate. A. Fore wing with the medial area below and beyond the cell suffused with black mesonephele. B. Fore wing with the whole medial area suffused with black, ustata. 5553. Chalenata mesonephele, n. sp. (5'. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreoiis white .mixed with some black-brown; palpi blackish at sides ; fore and mid tibiae and the tarsi blackish, the latter with slight pale rings. Pore wing ochreous white with slight fuscous irroration, the medial area suffused with blackish below and beyond the cell; a blackish mark. Fig. 111.— Chalenata mesonephele, cJ. |. at base of costa; antemedial line rather diffused, black, angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; a small black discoidal spot; post- medial line rather diffused, black, slightly angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved beyond lower angle of cell, then strongly incurved, some slight black striae beyond it from costa ; traces of a dark subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia ochreous white mixed with brown. Hind wing creamy white; the underside slightly irrorated with brown, a slig
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