. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XliULAl'HVGMA. 267 387i). Neolaphygma leucoplaga, n. sp. 2 . Head and teguUe grceu tinged with rufous and with darker hars above irons and between antenna); palpi dark brown mixed with wliitish ; antenna) blackish ; thorax green with some grey on dorsum ; pectus and legs dark brown mixed with grey, the fringes of scales on tibiie and tarsi green, the tibiie and tarsi ringed with white, the hind tarsi rufous ; abdomen fuscous with slight greyish segmental lines and grey bauds on terminal segments, the anal tuft ochreous, the ven
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XliULAl'HVGMA. 267 387i). Neolaphygma leucoplaga, n. sp. 2 . Head and teguUe grceu tinged with rufous and with darker hars above irons and between antenna); palpi dark brown mixed with wliitish ; antenna) blackish ; thorax green with some grey on dorsum ; pectus and legs dark brown mixed with grey, the fringes of scales on tibiie and tarsi green, the tibiie and tarsi ringed with white, the hind tarsi rufous ; abdomen fuscous with slight greyish segmental lines and grey bauds on terminal segments, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing purplish grey suffused in parts with red-brown and irrorated with black, some sap-green suffusion on antemedial area to below the cell and on postmedial area ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa defined by green on outer side, a round pure white patch beyond it from costa to just below cell; antemedial line indistinct. Fig. 69.—Neolaphygma leucoplaga, 2- r- except af} costa and inner margin, blackish defined by whitish on inner side, waved from costa to submedian fold, then strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and bent outwards above inner margin; orbicular small, elongate elliptical, with deep black centre and grey annulus slightly defined by black, the cell beyond it green ; reniform with irregular centre defined by black and whitish annulus ; an irregularly waved medial dark line : postmedial line black much interrupted, defined by white on outer side then by red-brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, closely approxi- mated to the reniform and incurved below vein 4, some green beyond it below costa and some white points on costa with rufous streaks between them ; traces of a pale subterminal line ; a terminal series of small black spots slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia ochreous and rufous with a red-brown line near base. Hind wing semihyaline purplish grey suffused with brown, paler at base ; a
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