. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 260 NOCXUID^. 3874. Laphygma apertura. Prodeiiia cvpertiira, Wlk. xxxii. Go4 (I8fia). Frodenia synsticiis, Hiupsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 511 (1896). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; palpi brown except at tips ; vertex of head with some blackish scales ; tejiulte with slight dark medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish; abdomen ochreous white, the basal crest blaeldsh. Fore wing ochreous suffused with dark brown and greyish and irrorated with black, the medial area with the median nervure, vein 2 and the
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 260 NOCXUID^. 3874. Laphygma apertura. Prodeiiia cvpertiira, Wlk. xxxii. Go4 (I8fia). Frodenia synsticiis, Hiupsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 511 (1896). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; palpi brown except at tips ; vertex of head with some blackish scales ; tejiulte with slight dark medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish; abdomen ochreous white, the basal crest blaeldsh. Fore wing ochreous suffused with dark brown and greyish and irrorated with black, the medial area with the median nervure, vein 2 and the bases of veins 3, 4 streaked with ochreous white ; suhbasal line represented by double black striae from costa and cell, with an oblique blackish mark beyond it across submedian interspace; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with ochreous, angled outwards below costa, excurved in submedian interspace and retracted to inner margin ; claviform moderate, blackish ; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by black and with pale brown. Fig, 67.—Laphygma a2xrtura, S. f. centres, the former narrow, oblique, its lower extremity produced and confluent with the latter which is produced at upper extremity, some ochreous above base of veiu 2; an oblique waved black line from lower angle of ceil to inner margin, interrupted by the streak on vein 2; postmedial double filled in with ochreous, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved, and incurved at discal and submedian folds, some minute pale points beyond it on costa ; a subterminal series of ochreous striae with small some- what dentate black marks on their inner side except towards costa ; a series of ochreous striae just before termen on which there is a series of black points ; cilia with fine whitish line at base. Hind wing pure white with slight dark points on apical half of termen ; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with brown. Hah. C. China, Ichang {Mrs. Pratt), 1 J; Madras, Kilgiri
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