. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 72 NOCTUID^, â wings pale ochreous irrorated with a few black scales; fore wing with black points in middle of cell and on discocellulars; hind wing with black discoidal point, the terminal area suffused with fuscous. Hab. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 $ type. Exp. 18 millim. 5084. Eublemma rufiplag'a, n. sp, (Plate CL. fig. 27.) (S. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey. Fore wing purplish grey slightly irrorated with brown, the costa on ante- medial area and the medial area to median nervure rufous ; a brownish subbasal li
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 72 NOCTUID^, â wings pale ochreous irrorated with a few black scales; fore wing with black points in middle of cell and on discocellulars; hind wing with black discoidal point, the terminal area suffused with fuscous. Hab. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 $ type. Exp. 18 millim. 5084. Eublemma rufiplag'a, n. sp, (Plate CL. fig. 27.) (S. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey. Fore wing purplish grey slightly irrorated with brown, the costa on ante- medial area and the medial area to median nervure rufous ; a brownish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line brown, excurved in and below cell and angled inwards on vein 1; a minute grey discoidal lunule defined on inner side by brown; an indistinct minutely waved medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line brown, defined on outer side by white towards costa, oblique from costa to vein 6, then minutely waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, brown, minutely dentate; a fine brown terminal line; cilia dark chocolate-brown with fine grey lines at base and middle, the dark brown broken up into lunules towards tornus. Hind wing purplish grey slightly irrorated with brown ; a postmedial series of dark brown points excurved at middle and traces of a subterminal series of points; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia dark chocolate- brown at tips, purplish grey at base ; the underside pale purplish grey with indistinct curved postmedial line. JIab. BoENEO, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 d type. ^^rj?. 16 millim. 5085. Eublemma apicimacula. Erastria apicimacula, Mab. C. R. Ent. Soc. Belg. xxiii. p. xviii (1880). Eublemma truncaia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 437 (1905). 5 . Head white; thorax and abdomen yellowish white tinged with rufous; pectus and legs white, the tarsi banded with black. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous, the costal edge
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