. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 710 NOCTtriDiE, suffused with brown, with dark discoidal bar and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Swierstra), 1 2; Natal, Stanger (Delvin), 1 c?, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 $, Durban (GoocJi), 1 c? type formosa ; Cape Colony, Pondoland, Nogeleni {Sivinny), 1 6 • Exp. S 24, 5 26 millim. 6074. Cardiosace sphendonistis. Tarache S2')hendonistis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Miie. ii. p. 384 (1902). S • Head blackish tinged with grey ; palpi white except at tips above; thorax white with some grey scales on patagia
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 710 NOCTtriDiE, suffused with brown, with dark discoidal bar and indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Swierstra), 1 2; Natal, Stanger (Delvin), 1 c?, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 $, Durban (GoocJi), 1 c? type formosa ; Cape Colony, Pondoland, Nogeleni {Sivinny), 1 6 • Exp. S 24, 5 26 millim. 6074. Cardiosace sphendonistis. Tarache S2')hendonistis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Miie. ii. p. 384 (1902). S • Head blackish tinged with grey ; palpi white except at tips above; thorax white with some grey scales on patagia and meta- thorax ; fore tibise and the tarsi banded with grey-black ; abdomen white with narrow blackish dorsal bands, the anal tuft oehreous. Fore wing white; subbasal line grey, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line grey, double, waved, the lines expanding into patches at costa; orbicular and reni form with slight black annuli open below, the latter hoop-shaped; an oblique olive- grey mark from middle of costa ; terminal area purple-grey shading to olive on inner side and towards apex; postmedial line repre- sented by an oblique olive-grey mark from costa on the white area and an interrupted minutely waved black line on the purple area strongly incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by a slight white lunule with black spot before it below vein 7, and from. Fig. 201.— Cardiosace sp}iendo7iistis, (^. \. vein 5 to inner margin by slight white lunules with small dentate red marks before them, the area beyond it irrorated with white ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a patch of white at tips below middle. Hind wing white with broad fuscous terminal band, its inner edge somewhat incurved at vein 2; cilia white; the underside with fuscous brown discoidal spot and patch on middle of costa. 5 . Fore wing with the basal area rather greyer; hind wing almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown, the underside with dark ante
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