. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EAEARA.—LOPHOEPZA, 225 abdomen rufous with the basal crest yellow; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white, the legs tinged with brown. Fore wing with the basal area, the cell and the costal area to beyond middle yellow, the costal edge rufous, the rest of wing pale purplish brown ; three diffused sinuous rufous lines on basal area ; a dark point in middle of cell; an oblique rufous discoidal bar defined at sides by white, its upper extremity produced ; an indis- tinct oblique dark shade from lower angle of cell
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EAEARA.—LOPHOEPZA, 225 abdomen rufous with the basal crest yellow; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white, the legs tinged with brown. Fore wing with the basal area, the cell and the costal area to beyond middle yellow, the costal edge rufous, the rest of wing pale purplish brown ; three diffused sinuous rufous lines on basal area ; a dark point in middle of cell; an oblique rufous discoidal bar defined at sides by white, its upper extremity produced ; an indis- tinct oblique dark shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line red-brown with a fine white line on its outer edge, obsolescent on costal area, oblique to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, incurved at discal fold, acutely angled outwards at vein 4, then strongly incurved and with a dark red-brown band beyond it before the subterminal line, which is whitish, incurved below costa and at discal fold, angled outwards at veins 6 and 4,. Fig. 59.—Farara pulchra, S- t- then strongly incurved, a dentate brownish shade beyond it from below costa to below vein 5 and a patch below vein 6; a series of blackish points just before termen connected by a line from below ein 7 to above 4 and towards tornus ; a dark brown terminal line ; cilia pale at base, dark brown at tips. Hind wing yellowish suff'used with rufous, the terminal area pale, the inner margin white, the medial area irrorated with black; postmedial line red- brown with a fine white line on its outer edge followed by a rufous band, angled outwards below costa and strongly at middle, then incurved and bent outwards to tornus ; the rufous band followed by the whitish subterminal line with some rufous suffusion beyond it; a dark striga before termen at discal fold and a dark patch angled inwards in submedian fold above tornus; a fine dark terminal line ; the underside yellowish white with a series of black points just before tornus. Hah. Br, N, G
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