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Fig. 680: Phthonerodes aristaepennis spec, nov., female, head and wing neuration. 
Phthonerodes anthracopsara spec. nov. (fig. 645) 
av&Qal; = charcoal, xpaqoq = sprinkled 
£ 26 mm. Head white, slightly suffused with grey medianly, lower 
half of the face blackish. Antenna dark grey, irrorated with white, scape 
white. Palpus white, basal segment grey, except the lower and the apical 
edges, basal half of the median segment, black, tip of the terminal, greyish. 
Thorax black, mixed with w'hite, with two ill-defined whitish transverse 
fasciae, collar white. Abdomen white, with broad bands of minute golden- 
brassy setae. Legs white, anterior suffused w'it-h black above, median 
tibia with two black spots, median tarsus blackish -ringed. Fore wing 
elongate, rather narrow, pointed, costa curved towards the extremities, 
more so anteriorly, straight in the middle, apex rather pointed, termen 
gently sinuate, considerably oblique. Glossy white, markings black. Base 
of the costa with an oblique erect-triangular patch, reaching to the fold 
and occupying the upper half of the base of the wing, its anterior edge 
below the middle, notched ; this patch extending as a narrow' streak along 
the basal ] / 5 of the costa, and as a shorter and broader streak of coarse 
irroration along the base of vein 12, continued below' the costa to beyond 
the middle of the wing by several sparse scattered large black scales; top 
reaching to the basal patch and connected by a strongly angulated trans- 
verse streak of black irroration with 2 / s of the dorsum, angulation acutely 
produced posteriorly below the fold; four irregular discal spots in two 
outwardly oblique series; first pair, in the cell before the middle, and in 
the fold beyond the middle, respectively, more or less connected with 
each other and with dorsum beyond the middle by a black irroration, and 
by a fuscous suffusion; second pair, slightly less oblique, in the middle of 
the wing and on the dorsum before the tornus, respectively, separate; a 
large rhomboidal spot on 3 / 4 of the costa, with its lower angle extended 
