. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 574 NOCTUIDiE. 1 9 type, ]\Iaskelij'a {de Mowhrcnj),! (5,1$; BaRjiv, Ranso^^'ii jST. Khyeii Hills (Watson), 4: cJ, 3 $ ; Singapore (Ridlei/), 2 S, ] 2 ; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 4 c?; Queensland, Towns- ville (Dodd), 1 c? • ). 30-40 millim. G980. Maurilia arcuata. Xanthndes arcuata, Wlk. xii. 779 (1857). Maurilia luhina, Mosl'IiI. Verli. VVien. xxxiii. p. 29S, pi. xvi. f. 13 (1884). Head and thorax pale reddish ochreous; palpi at base, pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae pale rufous, the tarsi ruf
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 574 NOCTUIDiE. 1 9 type, ]\Iaskelij'a {de Mowhrcnj),! (5,1$; BaRjiv, Ranso^^'ii jST. Khyeii Hills (Watson), 4: cJ, 3 $ ; Singapore (Ridlei/), 2 S, ] 2 ; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 4 c?; Queensland, Towns- ville (Dodd), 1 c? • ). 30-40 millim. G980. Maurilia arcuata. Xanthndes arcuata, Wlk. xii. 779 (1857). Maurilia luhina, Mosl'IiI. Verli. VVien. xxxiii. p. 29S, pi. xvi. f. 13 (1884). Head and thorax pale reddish ochreous; palpi at base, pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae pale rufous, the tarsi rufous ringed with white ; abdomen pale grey-brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing reddish ochreous; two indistinct, obliijue, sinuous brownish antemedial lines; a slight discoidal lunule; two indistinct oblique postmedial lines, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3; subterminal lino represented by a series of small black spots on costal half, then by a brown line ending at tornus, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, inner and terminal areas tinged with reddish Fig. 219.—Maurilia arcuata,, (^. \. Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale ochreous. Ab. 2. Similar but fore wing with the lines and discoidal lunule distinct, a subbasal line present, the subterminal line entire, a patch of brown on termen at discal fold. Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright rufous irrorated with fuscous, the last with the lines and discoidal lunule distinct. Ab. 4. Similar but fore wing with some fuscous suffusion on inner area towards tornus and on terminal area at discal fold. Ab. 5. Similar but fore wing with the inner area suffused with fuscous from the inner antemedial to the outer postmedial line. Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 3 c?; N. Nigeria, Minna (Macfie), 1 5; CWgo (RicJiardson), 1 $ type; Abyssinia, Atbara (Gerrard), 1 $; Br. E. Africa, Naitolia (Betton), ]
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