. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 580 PHALJEXOIDIDJE. fore and mid legs banded brown and white ; abdomen yellow, the crests black-brown. Fore wing purplish red thickly irrorated with white; a diffused inwardly-oblique white antemedial band delined on outer side by deeper red, patches in and below the cell; a deep red discoidal patch with crimson line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line deep red, rather diffused, excurved below costa,. Fig. 110.—Aethodes angustipennis, <$. j. then oblique and slightly waved; a" rather dentate deep red sub- termin
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 580 PHALJEXOIDIDJE. fore and mid legs banded brown and white ; abdomen yellow, the crests black-brown. Fore wing purplish red thickly irrorated with white; a diffused inwardly-oblique white antemedial band delined on outer side by deeper red, patches in and below the cell; a deep red discoidal patch with crimson line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line deep red, rather diffused, excurved below costa,. Fig. 110.—Aethodes angustipennis, <$. j. then oblique and slightly waved; a" rather dentate deep red sub- terminal shade with a small spot beyond it at discal fold; the apex rather suffused with red. Hind wing pale orange-yellow; the termen narrowly pale red on apical half. Underside pale orange- yellow ; fore wing with the terminal area purplish red, broadly at costa and narrowing to tornus ; hind wing with the apex narrowly pale red. Hab. N. Nigerta, Minna (Mac/ie), 1 6 type. Exp. 36 millim. 144. Mimeusemia econia, insert:— regina, Strand, Lep. Cat. v. p. 26 (1912), for ab. 1. 145 a. Mimeusemia vilemani. (Plate LXXI. fig. 8.) Mimeusemia vilemani, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 414 (1911). c? . Head and thorax black, the vertex of head, teguhc, and patagia with white stripes, the metathorax with small white spot; palpi with some white at base and white ring at extremity of 2nd joint; pectus orange, the tibiae landed with orange, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen banded black and orange. Fore wing black ; a rounded yellowish white antemedial spot in cell, medial elliptical spot from discal fold to well below vein 2 and obliquely placed post- medial spots beyond the angles of cell, the upper rounded, the lower rather triangular; some silvery blue irroration below costa to end of cell, short streak above base of vein 1, medial spots in and below cell and above vein 1, discoidal striga, slight curved postmedial series of spots and two spots at tornus; cilia white at apex and above
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