. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 569 6974. Maceda mansueta. Maccda mansueta, Wlk. xiii. 1141 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 82, pi. 154. IT. 4, 5; Hn:psn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 3t'7. Caldnba ohtenta, Wlk. xv. 1815 (1858). Maceda dit<calis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 176 (1864). Maceda rufescens, , Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 232 (1906). Head and thorax red-brown with a slight greyish tinge ; palpi Avliitish at base ; pectus and legs white, the tibia? and tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown with sligtit white segmenta
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 569 6974. Maceda mansueta. Maccda mansueta, Wlk. xiii. 1141 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 82, pi. 154. IT. 4, 5; Hn:psn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 3t'7. Caldnba ohtenta, Wlk. xv. 1815 (1858). Maceda dit<calis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 176 (1864). Maceda rufescens, , Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 232 (1906). Head and thorax red-brown with a slight greyish tinge ; palpi Avliitish at base ; pectus and legs white, the tibia? and tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown with sligtit white segmental lines, the ventral surface and anal tuft of male white. Fore wing red-brown with a faint purplish tinge ; antcmedial line brown, rather indistinct, oblique ; a black discoidal point, in the male forming a slight streak beyond the fovea ; postmedial line brown slightly defined on outer side by grey, oblique from costa to vein 6, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 3 and outwards below submedian fold ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight somewhat dentate blackish spots, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and ending on termen above tornus ; a slight fuscous terminal shade from below apex to vein'2; a fine w4iitish line at. Fig. 217.—Maccda man sue/a, J. \. base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area blackisli from vein 6 to submedian fold, a white patch beyond lower angle of cell with the veins on it brown ; the termen and cilia white between veins 3 and 1 ; the underside white, the terminal area fuscous brown narrowing to tornus and with the termen and cilia wliite between veins 3 and 1, sometimes with a slight black discoidal striga. Ab. 1. discalis. Fore wing with a pale patch on discal 'area defined by purplish fuscous beyond the antemedial and before the postmedial line and above submedian fold. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the medial area purplish fuscous to the submedian fold. Ab. 3. rufescens. Fore wing with tlie whole medial area purplish fuscous and
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