. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. MOXODES. 4G3 h-' Fore wing rcd-browii; the orbicular and rcniform slight, dark. «3. Fore wing witli the postmedial line double filled with ocbreous h/pofcofa. b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line indistinct, dark insipida. 41 GO. Monodes antica. Pcn'gca antica, Wlk. x. 27? (lSr)G). Xijlina detrecta, Druce, ]5Jol. , Ilet. i. p. 297 (part., nee Wlk.). Periffea concisa, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 481 (part., nee Wlk.). Caradrina fiisciMacula, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. See. 1898, p. 246, subsp. 2 (nee Grote). c?. He
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. MOXODES. 4G3 h-' Fore wing rcd-browii; the orbicular and rcniform slight, dark. «3. Fore wing witli the postmedial line double filled with ocbreous h/pofcofa. b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line indistinct, dark insipida. 41 GO. Monodes antica. Pcn'gca antica, Wlk. x. 27? (lSr)G). Xijlina detrecta, Druce, ]5Jol. , Ilet. i. p. 297 (part., nee Wlk.). Periffea concisa, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 481 (part., nee Wlk.). Caradrina fiisciMacula, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. See. 1898, p. 246, subsp. 2 (nee Grote). c?. Head and thorax rufous mixed with dark brown; palpi dark brown, pale at tips; teguloe dark brown at base followed by a black medial line; pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen dark brown, the base greyish. Fore Aving red-brown with slight dark irroration; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, oblicjue: claviform defined by a few dark scales; orbicular a white point defined by dark scales ;. Fig. 135.—Monodeii antica, (^. \. retiiform a black bar defined by white and somewhat constricted at middle; a very indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incttrvcd ; postmedial line double, the outer line very indistinct except at costa and with series of black points beyond it on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a series of pjile points with blackish striae between them beyond it on costa; subtermiiial line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by brown, excurved below vein 7 aud at middle; a terminal series of small black spots defined by slight pale lunules and with white points between them at the veins. Hind wing pale red-brown, the cilia with a fine white line at base. Underside of fore wing clothed with fuscous brown androconia to near termen; hind wing clothed with fuscous brown androconia to Ihe cu
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