. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. HADEXA, 215 Sect. II. Thorax with spreadiug crest. A. Fore wing with the basal 3rea blackish bulgeri. B. Fore wiug with the basal area uot blackish ruptUinea. 1432, Hadena l)ulgeri. Mamestra bulgeri, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 18 (1874). Head aud thorax purplish fuscous, slightly mixed with brown and grey; tegula; with slight dark medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen white more or*less tinged with brownish ochreous, the aual tuft brown. Fore wing brown and ochreous, the basal and postmedial areas almost e
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. HADEXA, 215 Sect. II. Thorax with spreadiug crest. A. Fore wing with the basal 3rea blackish bulgeri. B. Fore wiug with the basal area uot blackish ruptUinea. 1432, Hadena l)ulgeri. Mamestra bulgeri, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 18 (1874). Head aud thorax purplish fuscous, slightly mixed with brown and grey; tegula; with slight dark medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen white more or*less tinged with brownish ochreous, the aual tuft brown. Fore wing brown and ochreous, the basal and postmedial areas almost entirely suffused with leaden fuscous, the veins of medial area streaked with ochreous ; subbasal Hue indistinct, waved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, waved; claviform small, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reuiform small, with brown centres and whitish anuuli defined by black, the former elliptical, nearly erect, the latter with the discocellulars whitish and more or less angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and between the stigmata and the area. Fig. 30.—Hadena bulgci-i, cj". \. beyond the reniform darker ; a waved medial line ; postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; sub- terminal line whitish, defined on inner side by a series of rather large brown aud black dentate marks, angled outwards on vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia with fine ochreous lines at base and middle. Hind wing pure white, with brown terminal line from apex to vein 2, in female the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hah. Be. E. Afkica, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 $, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 (S ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 3 J, 2 $ ; Cape Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 7 6, 1 $• E.
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