. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LEOCYMA. AKMACTICA. 663 brown towards base ; the terminal area reddish brown tinged with purplish fuscous, defined on inner side by a nearly evenly incurved darker line: an indistinct diffused blackish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area broadly. Fig. 274.—Leocyma Camilla, (^. \. suffused with brown, narrowing to tornus ; cilia brown with a fine pale line at base, yellowish towards tornus. Underside of fore wing brown with the inner ar
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. LEOCYMA. AKMACTICA. 663 brown towards base ; the terminal area reddish brown tinged with purplish fuscous, defined on inner side by a nearly evenly incurved darker line: an indistinct diffused blackish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area broadly. Fig. 274.—Leocyma Camilla, (^. \. suffused with brown, narrowing to tornus ; cilia brown with a fine pale line at base, yellowish towards tornus. Underside of fore wing brown with the inner area whitish; hind wing yellowish white "with some brown suffusion on termen except towards tornus. 2 . Hind wing wholly suffused with broAvn on upperside. Nab. Vi. Africa. (Dudgeon), 1 c? ; ^.LEONE,Free Town (Austen), 1 $ , Port Lokko (Penny), 1 $ ; Gold , Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 J ; S. KiGERiA, Sapele (Samjison), 1 S, Asaba (Crosse), 1 J; Cameroons (Rutlierford), 1 5 . Exp. 36-38 millim. Cxenus ARMACTICA. Type. Armactica, Wlk. xxxiii. 808 (1865) colmnbina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uptuniecl, tbe 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and i-atber slenderly scaled, tbe 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibite slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Pore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with small blue-centred ocelli on terminal area. a. Fore wing without white on inner medial area. «^. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved to well beyond the small discoidal ocellus; hind wing with the termi
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