. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AGRiororiE?.— 41 costa to median iiervuie, then inwardly oblique and conjoined at inner margin to antemedial line ; postniedial line rather indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area suffused Avith black except between veins 6 and 5 and with some white points on costa; subterminal line obsolete towards costa, dentate at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of small black lunules: cilia green intersected with black. Hind w
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AGRiororiE?.— 41 costa to median iiervuie, then inwardly oblique and conjoined at inner margin to antemedial line ; postniedial line rather indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area suffused Avith black except between veins 6 and 5 and with some white points on costa; subterminal line obsolete towards costa, dentate at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of small black lunules: cilia green intersected with black. Hind wing white; a black discoidal spot ; an indistinct minuteh' waved post- medial line and faint diti'used subterminal line ; a lunulate black terminal line ; the underside with tlie costal area irrorated with fuscous, an antemedial band of diffused black scales, large dis- coidal black spot, rather diffused postraedial line escurved to vein 4, then oblique, and terminal patches of dark irroration at apex, middle, and submedian interspace. Hub. , S. California, 1 J . Exp. ?0 millim. Genus POLIONYCTA, nov. Type, P. apicafa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching vertex of head and siuootfjly scaled, the 3rd long: fruns t^niooth; eyes large, ; iuitenn;^ of teniale nearly simple; liead and thorax ch)thed chielly with scales and without crests; tibiae slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing broad, triangular, the apex rounded, tlie ternieu creuulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angfe of cell; 6 from upper angle ; t» from 10 anastomosing with 8 to foira the areole; 11 from ceU. Bind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; o obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 3615. Polionycta apicata, n. sp. 9 . Head and tegtihe grey suffused with red-brown, thorax grev slightly tinged with brown ; fore and mid tarsi banded with black; abdomen gre\-bro
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