. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 302 NOCTUIBiK. by rufous on outer side ; antemedial line black defined by rufous on inner side, represented by a black striga from costa and waved line from cell to inner margin ; orbicular represented by an elongate black spot, the reniforra by a rounded black spot with yellow bar near its outer edge, with a slight black streak in discal fold from it to subterminal line ; postmedial line very slight and formed of black scales, bent outwards below costa, oblique to discal fold where it is angled outwards, then oblique and min
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 302 NOCTUIBiK. by rufous on outer side ; antemedial line black defined by rufous on inner side, represented by a black striga from costa and waved line from cell to inner margin ; orbicular represented by an elongate black spot, the reniforra by a rounded black spot with yellow bar near its outer edge, with a slight black streak in discal fold from it to subterminal line ; postmedial line very slight and formed of black scales, bent outwards below costa, oblique to discal fold where it is angled outwards, then oblique and minutely dentate ; sub- terminal line very indistinct, defined on inner side by slight blackish dentate marks at middle and somewhat incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of slight black lunules; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins and terminal area, except towards tornus, tinged with fuscous; a blackish discoidal spot and terminal line except towards tornus ; the underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and traces of post- medial line from costa to vein 2. Hab. Transvaal, White R. {C'ooTce), 1 J ^ype. ii't^:>. 36 millira. 3918. Athetis leucopis. Charidea leucopis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 293 (1902). Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and mixed with black ; palpi whitish at tips; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous; sub- basal line represented by black striae from costa and cell defined by grey on outer side; a fine black streak in submedian fold from near base to subterminal line; antemedial line fine, black defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards in cell and on veiii 1 ; claviform a wedge- shaped black mark on the submedian streak ; a black streak in. Fig. ~Aiheiis leucopis, c?. r- discal fold from middle of cell to subter
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