. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 458 NOCTUIDiE. lilac'kisli mark beyond it on its outer edge above and below vein 4. Hind wing dark cujjreous brown, the cilia greyish at tips; the \niderside with the basal half greyish brown, the terminal half fuscous, the termen gre^'ish. Ilab. Gaboox, Ogowe K., type f <S i» Coll. Holland. Exp. 3G milUni. 82S0. Phytometra pliocea. Vlusiaphocca, irin]isn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 43^5 riOlO). Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the basal crest and ventral sur
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 458 NOCTUIDiE. lilac'kisli mark beyond it on its outer edge above and below vein 4. Hind wing dark cujjreous brown, the cilia greyish at tips; the \niderside with the basal half greyish brown, the terminal half fuscous, the termen gre^'ish. Ilab. Gaboox, Ogowe K., type f <S i» Coll. Holland. Exp. 3G milUni. 82S0. Phytometra pliocea. Vlusiaphocca, irin]isn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 43^5 riOlO). Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; tarsi ringed with whitish; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the basal crest and ventral surface grey-brown. Fore wing red-brown witli a silvery grey gloss; subbasal line slight, whitish, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line obsolete on costal half, slight oblique and silvery- froni cell to inner margin, slightly defined on inner side by dark brown and on outer by a dark shade expanding into a triangular patch below the stigma, which is indistinct silvery U-shajied with a silvery-white point beyond its lower extremit}^; reniform very. Fig. 119.—I'lnjtomctra j)liocca, (^. \. indistinct, dark brown with slight silvery points on its inner and outer edges, rather quadrate ; an indistinct brown spot at middle of costa and oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line slight, silvery defined on eacli side by dark brown, cxcurved below costa, then oblique, excvirved at middle and bent outwards below submedian fold; subterminal line silveiy-grey defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, angled outwards at vein 7, then slightly incurved and oblique to tornus, some dark suffusion beyond it at middle; a series of slight silvery striiu just before termen. Hind wing brown with a ciqjrcous gloss; cilia wliite at tips; the underside whitisli suffused with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous brown. Hah. Ugaxba, Mabii-a Forest, Chagwe {Ncavc), 1 $ , ]Mbale, I^lt. Kokanjero {Neavc^, 1 $ ; Natal, Durban {^E. L. Clark), 2 6 type. Edp. oG
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