. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AGETOPODES. — POLIOyrCTA, 41 costa to median iiervure, then iuwardl)^ oblique and conjoined at inner margin to antemedial line ; postmedial line rather indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below vein 4; postmedial area sulTused with 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 the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. AGETOPODES. — POLIOyrCTA, 41 costa to median iiervure, then iuwardl)^ oblique and conjoined at inner margin to antemedial line ; postmedial line rather indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below vein 4; postmedial area sulTused with 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 minutel}' waved post- medial line and faint diffused subterminal line ; a lunulate black terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, an antemedial band of diffused black scales, large dis- coidal black spot, rather diffused postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then oblique^ and terminal patches of dark irroration at apex, middle, and submedian interspace. Hub. , S. California, 1 J . Exp. 30 millim. Genus POLIONYCTA, nov. Type, P. apicata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and siuootbly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth; eyes lai-ge, rounded; anteniiEe ot'female nearly simple; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; tibiae sliglnly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing broad, triangular, the apex rounded, tlie ternien creuulate; veins 'A and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; ',) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to foira the areole; 11 from cell, ilind 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. $ . Head and tegulte grey suffused with red-brown, thorax grey slightly tinged with brown ; fore and mid tarsi banded with black; abdomen gre}-brown
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