. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 646 NOCTUID^. legs irrorated with brown ; abdomen wliito dorsally suffused with browu. Fore wing yellow sutt'used in parts with red-brown especially on medial area and sparsely irrorated with black, the inner half of ante- and postmedial areas greyish ; antemedial line indistinct, brownish, obhquely excurved ; postmedial line brownish, oblique from costa to vein 6, obliquely incurved below vein 4; an indistinct brownish subterminal line with slight white and black marks on its outer edge, excurved below vein 7 and at middle.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 646 NOCTUID^. legs irrorated with brown ; abdomen wliito dorsally suffused with browu. Fore wing yellow sutt'used in parts with red-brown especially on medial area and sparsely irrorated with black, the inner half of ante- and postmedial areas greyish ; antemedial line indistinct, brownish, obhquely excurved ; postmedial line brownish, oblique from costa to vein 6, obliquely incurved below vein 4; an indistinct brownish subterminal line with slight white and black marks on its outer edge, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing semihyaline, whitish, the veins of terminal area and the tormen tinged with yellow-brown. Hah. JiECHUANALAND, L, N'Gami {F. Lugard), 1 cJ, 1 $ • Exjp. cJ 24, $ 28 miilim. Type t in Mus. Stockholm. Genus PTEROGONIA. lype. Pierogonia, Swinb. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 152 Cras'pedagoniu, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 117 (1893) nubes. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and moderately scaled; frons smooth with large pointed tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antennte of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with slight ridge-like dorsal crest; tibias moderately iringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced and acute ; the termen typically slightly creuulate to vein 3, then obliquely curved, the inner margin highly arched ; the cell broad at extremity ; veins 3 and b fi'om near angle of cell; the discocellulars straight; vein 6 from angle of cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 I'roui cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to towards extremity. Sect. I. {Craspedagonia.) Fore wing with the termen strongly excised below apex, sligiitly angled at vein 6
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