. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. IHYROSTICTA. 131 *245. Thyrosticta agatha. Naclia agatha, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. p, 5, pi. 1. f. 12 (1893). $ . Head and thorax black-brown ; patagia orange; abdomen orange, with dorsal black stripe not reaching base or extremity. Fore wing black-brown, with orange antemedial patch from cell to inner margin ; a spot in end of cell and snbterminal spots on vein 2 and between veins 4 and 7. Hind wing orange, with terminal dark band narrowing to before tornus. Eah. Madagascar. Exp. 28 millim. This species is unknown to me. 246, T
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. IHYROSTICTA. 131 *245. Thyrosticta agatha. Naclia agatha, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. p, 5, pi. 1. f. 12 (1893). $ . Head and thorax black-brown ; patagia orange; abdomen orange, with dorsal black stripe not reaching base or extremity. Fore wing black-brown, with orange antemedial patch from cell to inner margin ; a spot in end of cell and snbterminal spots on vein 2 and between veins 4 and 7. Hind wing orange, with terminal dark band narrowing to before tornus. Eah. Madagascar. Exp. 28 millim. This species is unknown to me. 246, Thyrosticta quadrimacula. Kadia quadrimacula, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 85 (1878); Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. pi. 1. f. 9; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 107. Pseudonaclia st/lvicolens, Butl. A.'M. N. H. (o) Ik p. 293 (1878). Naclia quadriynacula, var. conjluens, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. p. 3, pi. 1. f. 10 (1893). Naclia perpetua, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. p. 3, pi. 1. f. 6 (1893). (S . Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi marked with whitish ; patagia with golden yellow patches; abdomen golden yellow, with dorsal Snd lateral brown stripes. Pore wing dark brown, with large elongate yellowish-white basal patch; a medial elliptical patch from subcostal nervure to submedian fold; a subapical pj^ 52 round spot below costa and sub- Thyro&ticta quadrimacula, S â \- terminal spot between veins 5 and 3. Hind wing orange- yellow, with dark brown terminal band indented by the orange area at middle. Ab. 1. confluens: fore wing with the subterminal spots con- joined. Ab. 2. quadrimacula, Oberth. {nee Mab.): abdomen without dorsal dark stripe. Hah. Madagascar, type si/IvicoJens (W. D. Cowan). Exp. 30 millim, 247, Thyrosticta trimacula. Ncwlia trimacula, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 85 (1878); Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii. pi. 1. f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 107. 5. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; patagia with orange spots ; abdomen with orange at sides and on dorsum near base and before extremity
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