. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 286 NOCTUIDiE. vein '3, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwai'ds at vein 5 ; a ter- minal white band with fine dark lines just before and on termen ; cilia pale brown with a fine dark line through them. Hind wing pure white, the apex faintly tinged with brown, the veins brown ; a slight dark discoidal lunule ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. Hub. Transvaal, White 11. (CooJce), 1 c?; jSTatal, Mooi E,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 286 NOCTUIDiE. vein '3, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwai'ds at vein 5 ; a ter- minal white band with fine dark lines just before and on termen ; cilia pale brown with a fine dark line through them. Hind wing pure white, the apex faintly tinged with brown, the veins brown ; a slight dark discoidal lunule ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. Hub. Transvaal, White 11. (CooJce), 1 c?; jSTatal, Mooi E,., 1 S; Madagascar, Betsileo (^Coioaii), 2 J, 1 $ t3'pe gramimcolens. Exp. 34-38 millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male laminate. 3898. Mimleucania perstriata, n. sp. Head and grey-white tinged with brown ; palpi blackish ; frons with black bars above and between antennte; tegalye with black line near base and dark brown tips ; patagia with dark streak on outer edge and some black scales above ; vertex of thorax with black streak; tibiae and tarsi with dark streaks; abdomen whitish tinged with brown except at base and with blackish dorsal streak on basal segments. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with brown and with a diffused brown fascia below the cell and thence obliquely to termen below apex, defined by pure white above ; a strong black streak below basal half of cell; the veins with dark streaks; antemedial line obsolete on costal half, then slight, ex- tremely strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; faint traces of a very obliiiue orbicular stigma; reniform represented by slight black striae at. 03 Fig. 82.—Mimleucania perstriata, (^. \. sides and a black streak with white streak above it below end of cell; postmedial line hardly traceable on costal half, more distinct below vein 3, bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4 and slightly angled inwards in submedian fold ; slight wedge-shaped brown marks fro
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