. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 454 NocTUiDj':. round base of aiitcnnjp, and on back of head orange; thorax grey, the base of teguhc and patagia white ; pro-, mesn-, and metathorax with paired yellow spots; pectus and legs black, the latter banded with orange; abdomen fuscous with orange bands, the hair at base grey or whilisli. Pore wing grey ; the costal area and cell whitish to near apex, before the auteraedial line extending to vein 1 ; the lines strong, black; subbasal and antemedial lines sinuous, the former from costa to vein 1, the latter
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 454 NocTUiDj':. round base of aiitcnnjp, and on back of head orange; thorax grey, the base of teguhc and patagia white ; pro-, mesn-, and metathorax with paired yellow spots; pectus and legs black, the latter banded with orange; abdomen fuscous with orange bands, the hair at base grey or whilisli. Pore wing grey ; the costal area and cell whitish to near apex, before the auteraedial line extending to vein 1 ; the lines strong, black; subbasal and antemedial lines sinuous, the former from costa to vein 1, the latter slightly angled inwards in. ¥ — Diaphoiiecumcla,c^. \. cell; claviform and orbicular absent; reniform a crimson lunule, defined by black at sides ; postmedial line angled outwards between veins G and 5, then incurved, defined by white on outer side ; no subterminal line ; cilia chequered orange and fuscous. Hind wing pure white, sometimes with curved postmedial line ; the underside always with postmedial mark on costa. $. Hind wing suffused with fuscous, the base often whitish; cilia chequered fuscous and white; a sinuous postmedial line showing through from underside. Ab. 1. mossambicensis. Antennte of male strongly serrate; fore wing with the crimson centre of reniform large and rounded. Bah. C. Afkica, .Staz Gadda (Emin Pasha), 1 $ ; Portuguese E. Africa, Chiperoni {Kirhy), 1 c5' ; Angola ; Transvaal, Piet lletief (CraiL'sJiaif), 1 $ ; Natal, Newcastle, 1 c?, Karkloof (MarsJiuU), 1 5 , Durban (Gueinzius, Leigh), 1 cJ , 2 $ ; Basotoland, Masite (Weii/all), 1 J; Cai'e Colony, 3 $, Grahamstown, 1 J, Erak Kloof (White), 1 $ . £>p. 40-52 millim. Larva. Fawcett, Trans. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 318, pi. 49. ff. 10, 11. Buff; each somite with a broad dark crimson band except the 1st and l]th, where the band is pale ferruginous with some small black spots. At the final moult the bands become velvety black except on ]st and 11th somites, and the ground-colour is pale groenish.
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