. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 588 AGAEISTLD^. spots in cell, one below the cell and a streak on vein 1, a diseoidal bar and spots on outer edge of the postmedial spots ; cilia blackish, with a pale line through them. Hind wing orange, with black diseoidal spot and terminal band angled inwards at veins 5 and 2. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal yellow area conjoined at costa to the medial spot.—Abyssinia. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the black markings on basal half almost obsolete.—Nyasa. Ab. 3. Fore
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 588 AGAEISTLD^. spots in cell, one below the cell and a streak on vein 1, a diseoidal bar and spots on outer edge of the postmedial spots ; cilia blackish, with a pale line through them. Hind wing orange, with black diseoidal spot and terminal band angled inwards at veins 5 and 2. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal yellow area conjoined at costa to the medial spot.—Abyssinia. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the black markings on basal half almost obsolete.—Nyasa. Ab. 3. Fore wing with all the black markings obsolete.—Accra. Ab. 4. intercisa. Larger; fore wing with the black markings more strongly developed.—Erithrea : Br. E. Africa. ITab. Sierra Leone (), 1 5 ; Gold Coast, Accra (Carter), 1 (S, 1 $; Sudan, White Nile, Gebt el Meghadid (Dunn), 3 $ ; Erithrea, Bogos; Abyssinia, Atbara, 1 J ; Br. E. Africa, N'Gatana (Gregory), 3 6 , Kampala (Scott-Elliot), 1 cJ , Uganda (Amorge), 1 2 » Machakos (Craiushay), 1 (S; Nyasaland, Deep Bay (CrawsJiay), 2 S ? Zomba (Johnston), 2 (S ; Natal, Manini R. (Marshall), 1 $ . Exj>. 30-46 millim. Genus PAIDA. Type. Paida, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 47 (1896) jpulchra. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with short Lair, the 3rd long and nearly naked; frons with long corneous spine and flattened plate below it excised in front; antennae almost simple, distinctly dilated towards extremity ; hind tibiae fringed with long hair; abdomen of male with long lateral tufts of hair on terminal segments. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; male with the inner margin and tornus fringed with very long hair and some long hairs on the veins of underside of
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