. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 470 UOCTCID-E. white spots; tliorax rc-d-browii mixed with crimson and yellow; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae yellow; abdomen white, the basal crest yellow and crimson. Eore wing with the costal area yellow, the basal area yellow suffused with crimson and with a purple-brown fascia below costa and a large diamond-shaped ante- medial silvery white patch extending from subcostal nervure to inner margin, bounded on outer side by a crimson lino with an oblique yellow line beyond it from the costal area to median nervure
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 470 UOCTCID-E. white spots; tliorax rc-d-browii mixed with crimson and yellow; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae yellow; abdomen white, the basal crest yellow and crimson. Eore wing with the costal area yellow, the basal area yellow suffused with crimson and with a purple-brown fascia below costa and a large diamond-shaped ante- medial silvery white patch extending from subcostal nervure to inner margin, bounded on outer side by a crimson lino with an oblique yellow line beyond it from the costal area to median nervure; medial area purple-brown emitting angles to just below costa beyond the anteraedial and before the postmedial line ; an oblique silvery white postmedial spot defined by crimson below the costa, tlie puQctiform black postmedial line arising from its lower edge towards which it is indistinctly double, slightly incurved at discal fold and bent inwards below vein 4; subterminal line blackish, straight, not extending to costa, a small silvery white wedge-shaped mark defined by crimson before it below the costa, a small spot below vein 6 and a faint oblique yelloAvish mark in sub- median interspace; the termen and cilia yellow. Hind wing with the basal half white, the terminal half yellow faintly tinged with crimson. Underside of fore wing yellowish white with the ante- medial white patch showing through. Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebca {PmU\ type t $ in Coll. Bethi;ne-Baker. Exp. 32 millim. 6819. Gahala polyspilalis. GahaJa iiolyspilalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1221 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 13ti. S . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with blood-red, the vertex of head, tegulse at middle and sides and patagia with silvery white patches defined by red ; palpi white at base ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae with red streaks at base, the fore tarsi slightly ringed with red ; abdomen ochreous yellow, the crests. Fig. 170.â Gahala â polys2nlalis, S. \. red, the ventra
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