. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ovios, 427 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen orange with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing pale yellow-green : a black spot at base edged with white and a white patch above base of vein 1 ; the costa irrorated with black to beyond middle, ex- panding on medial area and to middle of cell between the stigmata, the lines absent; a large wedge-shaped white patch in, just Fig. 204.— Ovios capensis, cJ. \. and beyond the cell, extending as a fascia on costa to apex ; orbicular round, deep
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ovios, 427 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen orange with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing pale yellow-green : a black spot at base edged with white and a white patch above base of vein 1 ; the costa irrorated with black to beyond middle, ex- panding on medial area and to middle of cell between the stigmata, the lines absent; a large wedge-shaped white patch in, just Fig. 204.— Ovios capensis, cJ. \. and beyond the cell, extending as a fascia on costa to apex ; orbicular round, deep red edged with yellowish and a few black scales and with some white scales in centre ; reniform a rather narrow lunule, deep red edged with yellowish, its lower part and upper extremity defined by black, some white in centre and in lower part; a black point below costa towards apex; a broad terminal white band with diffused lunulate black line on it before termen, with red patches on it below costa and above inner margin, and series of large terminal red lunules beyond it slightly defined by white; cilia whitish with a black line through them. Hind wing orange-yellow with large black discoidal lunule and subter- minal series of rather triangular black spots interrupted at sub- median fold. Underside of fore wing yellow with the orbicular and reniform black; traces of a curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, more prominent and diffused between veins 7 and 4. Hah. Katal, Karkloof (Marshall), 1 c?, Durban (Oueinzius), 1 S -, 1 2 ; Cape Colony, Pondoland, Nggeleni {Siuwny), 1 § , CafFraria {Sir A. Smith, Trimen), 3 c? , 1 6 • Exjp. 44-52 millim. 4900. Ovios septentrionis, n. sp. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 8.) 5 . Head white mixed with black ; palpi orange with lateral black spots on the joints ; tegulte orange at base, deep red at tips ; thorax deep red; patagia white mixed with black and fringed with orange hair, the metathorax with some orange hair ; pectus and legs orange,
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