. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BALACRA. 7-'? except at extremity. Fore wing pale yellow ; the costa and inner margin except towards base black ; the veins mostly streaked with black; a black streak in cell forked on discocellulars, and a. Fig-. 14.—Balacra rubwstriata, $ . {. diffused oblique fascia below vein 2. Hind wing entirely white. Underside of fore wing with diffused fuscous subapical spots between veins 8 and 5. Hab. Togoland (R. Biittiier), type f in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 58 millim. 293 b. Balacra nigripennis. Merjapisa nigripennis, Auriv. Ark. f.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BALACRA. 7-'? except at extremity. Fore wing pale yellow ; the costa and inner margin except towards base black ; the veins mostly streaked with black; a black streak in cell forked on discocellulars, and a. Fig-. 14.—Balacra rubwstriata, $ . {. diffused oblique fascia below vein 2. Hind wing entirely white. Underside of fore wing with diffused fuscous subapical spots between veins 8 and 5. Hab. Togoland (R. Biittiier), type f in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 58 millim. 293 b. Balacra nigripennis. Merjapisa nigripennis, Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 30 (1904), June. Pseudapiccmoma gloriosa, Jord. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 441 (1904), Sept. ; Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. pi. xiv. f. 31. Ptseudapiconoma specuUgera, obliterata, Griinb. Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. 1907, p. 435. 2 . Head and thorax blue-black ; irons with crimson lateral stripes ; basal joint of antennas with crimson spots ; patagia with crimson stripes ; thorax with crimson stripes followed by spots on metathorax; fore coxae crimson on inner side; pectus with some crimson ; abdomen black shot with blue and with series of crimson bands except on terminal segment, dorsally incomplete at base, a sublateral series of crimson spots. Fore wing black-brown slightly tinged with blue at base ; two crimson points at base of median nervure; hyaline spots in upper end of cell and below base of vein 2; a series of spots beyond the cell between veins 8 and :!, the spot above vein 5 largest. Hind wing black-brown slightly shot with blue, the base of inner margin crimson. Hab. Cextr. Africa, type t $ hi Mus. Stockholm ; <' \ \i i:i;\ s ; Congo, Katanga, Kanibove (Neave), 2 $; Angola, Pungo Andongo (Hofmeyer), type f $ gloriosa in Coll. Rothschild. Exj). 72 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origina
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