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<S179. Diphthera ccenobita. 



Bnmhi/.v coeiwhiia, Esp. Selnnolt. iii. p, lOG, pi. ^7. f. 7 & pi. 82. f. 2 

 fl785): iriibn. Knr. Sdmiett., l^omb. ff. 72, 73 & Nocf. f. nOS ; Dup. 

 Leit. Fr. vii. pi. 11(5. f. 4; Frey, Beitr. pi. 17; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 130. 



Head and tliorax ocliveous white ; antennse black with the 

 brandies brown ; ])alpi and sides of frons blaek ; tesfuliB black at 

 base and witli black dor.?al streak ; patagia with black patches at 

 base, middle, and tips ; pro-, meso-, and metatliorax with large 

 jiaired black spots ; pectus brownish Avhite, l)lackish in front ; 

 tibiiB and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen black, the anal tiift 

 and ventral surface wliite, lateral and sublateral series of black 

 spots. Fore wing creamy white ; a small black spot below base of 

 cell ; two subbasal black-brown marks on costa, a patch ludow tlie 

 cell and spot above inner margin ; a small rovmd black spot in 

 middle of cell ; reniform white defined bv black except above and 

 Avith white spot before it on the black-brown medial band which is 



Fig. 95. — Dipldhera ccenohita, c^. \. 



waved to lower angle of cell, then the whole medial area black- 

 l)r()w-n ; postmedial line black-brown, dentate, incurved at discal 

 fold and below vein 4, defined on inner side by some whitish on the 

 dark medial area ; a black-brown subterminal band with dentate 

 edges, strong towards costa, at middle, and towards inner mai-gin, 

 .somewhat incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; some dentate 

 black-brown marks before termen with a large patch between 

 veins 6 and 4 ; a terminal series of black-brown bars ; cilia 

 chequered black-brown and white. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with l)i-(>wn, tbc interspaces rather paler; traces of a diffused 

 sinuous daik subterminal band ending on termen at vein 1 ; a dark 

 terminal line; cilia cluMiucred brown and white; the underside 

 white, an antemcdial black-brown band from costa to median 

 nervure, a postmedial band with waved edges, incm-ved at discal 

 fold and below vein 3, a bar from costa before a])ex and obli(jue 

 bar from vein 2 to termen at vein 1 ; the veins of terminal area 

 with dark streaks. 



Ilab. Germ.vnt, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; Austria, 

 Leech Coll. ; Hi>gary ; N. Italy, Zelkr Coll. ; Balkan States; 



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