. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HTPERCODIA. RHTNCHODIA. 489 the last with the crest on 3rcl segment tipped with black. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous, leaving the inner area and a patch on costa before apex whitish ; faint traces of two oblique rufous antemedial lines from costa to submedian fold and traces of an oblique rufous discoidal bar with some whitish beyond it; poste- rn edial line dentate, very indistinct and oblique from costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique, waved, and with white suffusion beyond. Fig. 144.—Hypcrcodia diBparilis, (^. \. it f
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HTPERCODIA. RHTNCHODIA. 489 the last with the crest on 3rcl segment tipped with black. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous, leaving the inner area and a patch on costa before apex whitish ; faint traces of two oblique rufous antemedial lines from costa to submedian fold and traces of an oblique rufous discoidal bar with some whitish beyond it; poste- rn edial line dentate, very indistinct and oblique from costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique, waved, and with white suffusion beyond. Fig. 144.—Hypcrcodia diBparilis, (^. \. it from vein 3 to inner margin; a terminal series of slight brown lunules; cilia white mixed with rufous. Hind wing whitish uniformly suffused with rufous; the underside white slightly irrorated with rufous, the costal area suffused with rufous, a dark discoidal point, indistinct minutely waved curved postmedial line, and terminal series of points. Huh. Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 c?, 1 5 ^^yps- Exi^. S 20, 5 24 millim. Genus RHYNCHODIA, nov. Type, B. meso'phcBa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint bent forward at extremity and projecting about twice the length of head, tliie 3rd long and porrect; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennfe of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibias moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 froui cell; male with the cell, the area just beyond it and below it to submedian fold clothed on underside with black androconia. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosiug with the cell near base only. 5737. Rhyncliodia mesophsea, n. sp. S . Head and thorax pale rufous slig
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