. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 593 KocTuiDj;. Fore wing silvery with golden reflections, the surfaco being striatecl, irroratcdVith a few black scales ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; rcuiforra small, oblique elliptical, slightly defined by Avhitish and black scales; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, cxcurved from costa to vein 4 and incurved in submedian fold : a subtermiual series of small black B[)ots, angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind Aviiig very pale yellow ; cilia white at tips.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 593 KocTuiDj;. Fore wing silvery with golden reflections, the surfaco being striatecl, irroratcdVith a few black scales ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; rcuiforra small, oblique elliptical, slightly defined by Avhitish and black scales; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, cxcurved from costa to vein 4 and incurved in submedian fold : a subtermiual series of small black B[)ots, angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind Aviiig very pale yellow ; cilia white at tips. Underside of both wings yellowish white. Huh. Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 $ , Durban {Leif/h), 2 ? type. Exj). 24 millim. Genus PLUSIOCALPE. .^^,^^^ Plusiocalpc, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 29 (1894) pallida- Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenna of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore and hind tibia; slightly fringed with hair, the mid tibitv! fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex roimded,_ the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, the tornus with scale-tooth, the inner margin with lobe before middle ; veins 3 and b from near angle of cell; (> from upper angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 froiu cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 0, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Hind wing of male with thick fringe of long hair on inner area above. 7015. Plusiocalpe sericina. Metaptija sericina, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 730. 6. Head and tegulae ochreous white; thorax white faintly tinged with purplish brown and irrorated with a few brown scales; l)cctus and legs ochreous white ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally
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