. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 386 NOCTUID^. 2566. Hypotype scotomista. Folia scotomista, Hmpsu. Aun. S. Air. Mus. ii. p. 278 (1902). S. Head and thorax clothed with white and black-hrown scales ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally snflfused with fnscous. Fore wing rather narrow, white, thickly irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal line represented by a white point on costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, curved, with white point at costa ; claviform represented by a slight white mark ; orbicular a small whit
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 386 NOCTUID^. 2566. Hypotype scotomista. Folia scotomista, Hmpsu. Aun. S. Air. Mus. ii. p. 278 (1902). S. Head and thorax clothed with white and black-hrown scales ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally snflfused with fnscous. Fore wing rather narrow, white, thickly irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal line represented by a white point on costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, curved, with white point at costa ; claviform represented by a slight white mark ; orbicular a small white ocellus ; reniform large, indistinctly defined, with whitish annulus ; traces of a dark medial shade ; postmedial line with white point at costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, indistinct, excurved to vein 4, then. Fig. 128.—Hyfotyfe scotomista, ^. \. incurved; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish defined by fuscous on inner side, somewhat dentate at veins 7, 6 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous and white. Hind wing ochreous whitish tinged with brown especially on terminal area ; cilia white; the underside white with slight dark streak in cell and discoidal spot, a sinuous postmedial line and some brown irroration on terminal area. 5 . Pore wing broader ; hind wing neai4y uniformly suffused with fuscous and without markings on underside. Hah. JSTatal, Coast belt; Cape Colony, Kokstad {Mrs. Pringle), 1 $ , Cape Town, 1 S type. My. 42-48 millim. Genus BRYOMIMA. Bryomima, Stand. Iris, xii. p. 357 (1899) Type. carducha. Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennte of male ciliated or almost simple; head and thorax clothed with hair and a few scales mixed, without distinct crests; tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the termen obliquely
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