. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AMSACTA. 323 b. Fore wing without broad fascise in interspaces. a'. Head orange on vertex. a-. Fore wing with tlie veins streaked with grammiphlebia. fr. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with black bivittata. 6'. Head white on vertex. a-. Abdomen orange above. a^. Fore wing with well-defined ciimson fascia on costa , insola/a. P. Fore wing without crimson fascia on liiicola nb. i'-. Abdomen crimson above lineola. 1828. Amsacta marginalis. Atnsacfa marginalis, Wlk. iv. 805 (1855) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 4G6.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AMSACTA. 323 b. Fore wing without broad fascise in interspaces. a'. Head orange on vertex. a-. Fore wing with tlie veins streaked with grammiphlebia. fr. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with black bivittata. 6'. Head white on vertex. a-. Abdomen orange above. a^. Fore wing with well-defined ciimson fascia on costa , insola/a. P. Fore wing without crimson fascia on liiicola nb. i'-. Abdomen crimson above lineola. 1828. Amsacta marginalis. Atnsacfa marginalis, Wlk. iv. 805 (1855) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 4G6. (S. Head and thorax red-brown, the head tinged with orange; antenna) with the branches blackish; abdomen orange, with dorsal. Fig. 14fi.—Amsacta margbicdis, (^. {. black bands on each segment. Fore wing red-brown, the costa and inner margin narrowly orange. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia orange on tornal half. Ilab. Sierra Leone, 2 d type. ^.rp. 30 millim. 1829. Amsacta melanogastra. Cycnia melanogastra, HoU. Don. Smith's Travels p. 410, ]A.— f. 10 (1897). Head and thorax grey ; tegulas and patagia edged with orange ; femora orange above; abdomen orange, with dorsal black patch from 2nd segment to extremity, lateral and sublateral series of black points, the area between them grey, the ventral surface ochreous. Pore wing brownish grey, the costal area yellow, the veins streaked with yellow ; the inner area yellow with a grey- brown fascia; the inner margin, points on discoccllulars, and the cilia orange. Hind wing orange-yellow. llah. 8011ALILAND, type t $ in Coll. Holland ; Ek. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe {Belton), 1 c5',Kikuyu {Crawshay), 1 J. Eu'p. 50 millim. 1830. Amsacta grammiphlebia, n. sp. (riate XLVI. fig. 4.) Head orange ; palpi at sides and antennae black ; tegala? yellow edged with orange ; patagia and thorax pale yellow ; sides of pectus and femora above orange ; mid tibia; and the tarsi black ; abdomen orange, with black dorsal streak and segmental lines exce
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