. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. -aSGOCERA. 597 •extremity of 3rd and antennse black; tegulae with rufous and black stripes; edges of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax blue-black aud orange ; tibia} and tarsi orange, banded with black and white; abdomen orange with dorsal series of black spots, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown, very thickly irrorated with ochreous ; a metallic bhiish spot below costa near base ; a creamy- white fascia edged with ferruginous red from base
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. -aSGOCERA. 597 •extremity of 3rd and antennse black; tegulae with rufous and black stripes; edges of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax blue-black aud orange ; tibia} and tarsi orange, banded with black and white; abdomen orange with dorsal series of black spots, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown, very thickly irrorated with ochreous ; a metallic bhiish spot below costa near base ; a creamy- white fascia edged with ferruginous red from base along median nervure and below vein 6 ending in a point just before termen, its upper edge indented by the silvery and blue orbicular and reniform spots and its lower edge by a spot before the triangular expansion at end of cell, which extends to submedian fold ; an orange-red terminal line; cilia blackish at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing orange, with red discoidal spot and terminal band, the latter expand- ing widely on apical area and below vein 2 ; a terminal orange line ; the cilia fuscous at base, whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing orange, the terminal area fuscous, indented by the wedge- shaped spot which is orange. $ . Hind wing with the markings black. Hah. Abyssinia, Atbara, 2 (S ; Br. E. Africa, Wadelai (Emin)^ 5 (5*, Port Ogowe (Johmton), 1 $ ; Ashanti, 1 S ; Niger R., Onitsha, 1 cT, 1 $ , Sapele (Sampson), 1 c? ; Lagos {Stralian), 1 S, 1 2 ; Congo, 2 c? , 2 $ ; Angola, Kinsembo, ] 2 . Exp. 38-44 millim. 119. -ffigocera venulia. Noctua vemdia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 165, D (1777); Boisd. Mon. Zyg. p. 13, pi. 1. f. 3; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 32, pi. 94. f. 1; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 158 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 36. Head white; palpi with patch of brown and black at side of 2nd joint, the extremity of ^rd joint black; sides of frons and antennae black; thorax white, with brown stripes on tegulae, the €dge8 of patagia and subdorsal stripes on thorax black
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