. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 180 xocrciDJJ. brown, oblique and with rather flifl'used cliocolate-brown baud on its outer ed<;o from cost a to median nervure, above whicli there is a black wed^e-shaped mark beyond it before the reniform, then incurved ; postmedial line iine, brown detiiicd by whitish on outer side, oblique to vein G, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, a truncate conical patch beyond it ou costal area with two white points on the costa; subterminal line. Fig. 63.—Androlymnia torsivena, 6 • {• whitish w
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 180 xocrciDJJ. brown, oblique and with rather flifl'used cliocolate-brown baud on its outer ed<;o from cost a to median nervure, above whicli there is a black wed^e-shaped mark beyond it before the reniform, then incurved ; postmedial line iine, brown detiiicd by whitish on outer side, oblique to vein G, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, a truncate conical patch beyond it ou costal area with two white points on the costa; subterminal line. Fig. 63.—Androlymnia torsivena, 6 • {• whitish with slight black marks beyond it below the costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely waved, angled inwards at discal fold and vein 2; a terminal series of black striae slightly defined by whitish on inner side. Hind wing grey suffused Avith brown ; the cilia with whitish points at base, wholly Avhitish towards tornus; the underside grey sufl'used and irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal bar and slightly waved postmedial line. 2 . Fore wing w"ith truncate conical chocolate patch on middle of costa on outer side of medial line extending to inner side of reniform just above the black mark which is lunulate. Ha/>. Gold Coast, Acropong Mts. (Sir G. Carter), 1 c?, 1 $ tj-pe, C. Coast Castle (I/v/Iett), 1 $ ; Lagos, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 4 $ ; Natal, Victoria Distr. (Gonch), 1 5 , Durban [Leigh, Clarke), 2 § ; Cape Colony {Sir A. Smith), 1 c?. ^. 28-32 millim. Sect. II. Fore wing of male normal. A. Fore wing witli the outer edge of the subterminal costal pateli strongly indented clavat(\ B. Fore wing with the outer edge of the subterminal costal patch not indented '. cmarginata. 4535. Androlymnia clavata, n. sp. (Plate CXLI. fig. 25.) (5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale purplish grey slightly mixed with bro\vn; i)alpi at sides and frons blackish; legs blackish, the tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing pale purplish-grey irrorated with chocolate-brown; subbasal
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