. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MICRArATEl'IS. 453 bronzc-browu baud, its inner edge excurved. its outer edge nearly straiglit,; a terminal bronze-brown band, angled inwards at discal fold and narrowing to a point at tornus. Hind wing yellowish entirely suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia yellower with a brown line through them ; the underside yellow thickly irroratcd with brown, an indistinct diffused curved postraedial line. Hah. Queensland {Arnold), 1 c? , 3 $ , Brisbane (Turner), 1 $ . Ea2). 16 millim. Type f in Coll. Turner. 4929. Micrapatetis albiv
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MICRArATEl'IS. 453 bronzc-browu baud, its inner edge excurved. its outer edge nearly straiglit,; a terminal bronze-brown band, angled inwards at discal fold and narrowing to a point at tornus. Hind wing yellowish entirely suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia yellower with a brown line through them ; the underside yellow thickly irroratcd with brown, an indistinct diffused curved postraedial line. Hah. Queensland {Arnold), 1 c? , 3 $ , Brisbane (Turner), 1 $ . Ea2). 16 millim. Type f in Coll. Turner. 4929. Micrapatetis albiviata, n. sp. 5 . Head ochreous white; palpi at sides and antennae brown ; thorax ochreous white mixed with bronze-brown ; pectus and legs brown mixed with whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Pore wing ochreous white suffused and irrorated with bronze-brown, the costal area whiter to postmedial line ; autemedial line white, waved, inwardly oblique, from the costal area to inner margin;. Micrapateils nlhlviata, §. orbicular absent; reniform a minute white lunule with rufous centre; postmedial line white, inwardly oblique, dentate, excurved beyond lower angle of cell; subterminal line indistinct, white, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia chequered red-brown and white. Hind wing ochreous white; the underside slightly irrorated with brown and M'ith small blackish discoidal spot. Hah. N, Atjsxealia ( W. Stalker), 1 $ type. Exp. 20 millim. *4930. Micrapatetis glycychroa. (Plate CXLYI. fig. 20.) Axiorata glycychroa. Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 218 (1904). $ . Head and thorax reddish ochreous mixed with fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi banded with black; abdomen greyish fuscous. Pore wing ochreous suffused with purplish red; the basal area suffused and irrorated with fuscous leaving some ochreous below costa and before autemedial line; the subbasal line repre- sented by an ill-defined fiery red and black spot below costa ; ante- medial line wave
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