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New Species of Polygrammodes and a Related New Genus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
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Body above pale yellow, abdomen with faint brown mid-dorsal and dorso-lateral spots; a vinous stripe in front of wing-base; body beneath and legs whitish buff. Wings above yellow, paler distally on fore wing and costally on hind wing. Fore wing with faint indications of an arcuate, blackish-fuscous, broken antemedial band; orbicular represented bv a black dot in cell; reniform obsolete; postmedial line strongly zig-zagged, inierrupted at veins, preceded by black dashes in cells M2, to Cu2; a subterminal row of brownish-fuscous spots between veins; fringe yellow; hind wing with interrupted, zig-zagged postmedial line, preceded by black dashes, as on fore wing; subterminal spots stronger than on fore wing; fringe yellow. Wings beneath whitish buff; costa of fore wing weakly infuscated; a fuscous dot-like orbicular and lunate reniform; no other markings. Expanse 67 mm.
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