. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 428 'abctiad^. Ilah. , Hardwicke Coll., 4 d, type; N. S. "Walks, Syiliiey, 2 (S (Mdt/inu); VicroRiA (2i<ti/nor), 1 j,l $ ; TASiiANiA, Lauaceston {J. J. ]\'aU-er), 2 6 . Exp. 26-32 millim. 903. Asura conferta. Pitane conferta, Wlk. ii. 533 (1854); IVIoore, Lep. Cevl. ii. p. 60, pi. 104. «.lii,\ Hiiipsn. Muths Ind. ii. p. lUll; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. :2tt'.t. Hepita anila, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 302 (185U); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. l"J9. yepita sit/nata, Wlk. xxxi. 240 (18()4). Nepita <Bqrota, Butl. Trans.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 428 'abctiad^. Ilah. , Hardwicke Coll., 4 d, type; N. S. "Walks, Syiliiey, 2 (S (Mdt/inu); VicroRiA (2i<ti/nor), 1 j,l $ ; TASiiANiA, Lauaceston {J. J. ]\'aU-er), 2 6 . Exp. 26-32 millim. 903. Asura conferta. Pitane conferta, Wlk. ii. 533 (1854); IVIoore, Lep. Cevl. ii. p. 60, pi. 104. «.lii,\ Hiiipsn. Muths Ind. ii. p. lUll; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. :2tt'.t. Hepita anila, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 302 (185U); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. l"J9. yepita sit/nata, Wlk. xxxi. 240 (18()4). Nepita <Bqrota, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 336; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 299. Yepita oi-hrai-ea, Biitl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 33fi ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 299. Ncpita limhahi, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 33(i; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 299. yepita conferta, , Hnipsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 84, pi. 15S. f. I). Deep orange; antennae black except at base ; palpi, vertex of head, shoulders, patagia, thorax, and legs with black spots ; abdomen dorsally black, fore wing with subbasal black patches on costa and below the cell, sometimes con- joined ; anteniedial and medial waved black bunds, the former angled outwards in cell to join the latter, which is angled in- wards ; a discoidal spot; a waved postmedial band strongly Fig. ^.s«m co»ferfa, c^. {. '^eut outwards from below costa (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) to vein 4 ; a subterminal ir- regularly dentate band emitting spurs to termea at costa and veins 6 and 4 and bent outwards to tornus; cilia black. Hind wing orange, with discoidal point; a broad terminal black band with irregular inner edge. Ab. 1. ce(jrofa. Hind wing with the terminal band very broad and running up on inner area nearly to base. Ab. 2. anila. The terminal band of hind wing rather narrower. Ab. 3. Fore wing with the bands narrower. (a) ochracea. Hind wing with the terminal band broad and running up on inner area to near base. (b) limhata. Hind wing with the terminal band narrower.
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