. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. HYPOPLEXIA. nEIiJ5MA. 429 black streak beyond it in fliscal fold to just before termen and some whitish points on costa; subterminal line whitish, minutely dentate, angled inwards in submediau fold, with slight dark streaks beyond it in the interspaces to the terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with fine brown line near base and the tips inter- sected with black. Hind wing pure white with terminal series of black stria3 except towards torn us ; cilia slightly tinged with rufous and with a few black sc
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. HYPOPLEXIA. nEIiJ5MA. 429 black streak beyond it in fliscal fold to just before termen and some whitish points on costa; subterminal line whitish, minutely dentate, angled inwards in submediau fold, with slight dark streaks beyond it in the interspaces to the terminal series of small black lunules; cilia with fine brown line near base and the tips inter- sected with black. Hind wing pure white with terminal series of black stria3 except towards torn us ; cilia slightly tinged with rufous and with a few black scales at tips at submediun fold; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. Hah. Cape Colony {Sir A. Smith), 1 d" type, Anushaw (Hiss F. Barrett), 2 c5". Ex]:>. 32 millim. Genus HER^MA. Type. Hercema, Stand. Eom. Mem. ti. p. 501 (1892) mandschurica. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with below; frons sinooth; eyes large, rounded; antennse of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed witli hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metatborax with spreading crests ; tibife fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather broad, the (ermen not ci-enulate, rather oblique towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *3267. Hersma mandschurica. Pachiohia mandschurica, Grajs. Berl. ent. Ztit. 1889, p. ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. Head and thorax deep red-brown ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore Aving pale red-brown with a greyish tinge; the medial area, postmedial costal area and terminal area deep red-brown ; subbasal. Fig. 75.—HercEma mandschurica, (^. \. line ind
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