SCHALODETA. 801 



Genus SCHALODETA, nov. 



Type, 8. fasciolata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, and slender ; antennae of 

 male with tuft of hair on basal joint, serrate; tibiae with the spurs short. 

 Fore whig rather narrow, the apex rounded ; vein 2 strongly bent downwards 

 at base ; 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6, 7, 8 stalked; 9, 10 stalked ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Holocraspedum and Philenora in the antennas having a 

 tuft of hair on basal joint ; fore whig with vein 6 stalked with 7, 8. 



1134 e. Schalodeta fasciolata. 



Caulocera fasciolata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 218 (1913). 



( itlocera fasciolata, pimctistriata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 219 (1913). 



Head and thorax white slightly tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen creamy white. Fore wing creamy white, rather 

 thinly clothed with hairy scales; some slight rufous marks at 

 base; ill-defined pale rufous subbasal spots on costa and below the 

 cell ; antemedial line with a pale rufous spot on costa, then slight. 



Fig. 263.— Schalodeta fasciolata, tf. h 



incurved at subcostal nervure ; a rufous patch in submedian inter- 

 space before the medial line, which is rufous, oblique towards costa, 

 then less oblique to vein 1 and bent inwards to inner margin, 

 forming small spots in cell and at inner margin ; a rufous discoidal 

 spot ; postmedial line rufous, rather diffused, oblique, sinuous; a 

 diffused oblique maculate rufous line from costa towards apex to 

 termen at vein 2 ; a terminal series of rufous striae from apex to 

 submedian fold with slight white spots before them with some 

 rufous suffusion on their inner side at apex and middle. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white. 



Hub. Ditch X. Guinea, Up. Setekwa R., Snow Mts. {Meek), 

 1 cT , Oetakwa R. {Meek), typef d punctistriata in Coll. Roth- 

 schild; Br. N. Guinea, Kumusi R. (Meek), typef $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 20 millim. 



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