. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 593 NOCTUID^. Fore wing silvery with golden reflections, tlic snrraco being fctriated, irrorated with a few black scales ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; rouiform small, oblique elliptical, slightly defined by whitish and black scales; postraedial line double' filled in with whitish, exciirved from costa to vein 4 and incurved in submedian fold ; a subterminal series of small black spots, angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wii]g very pale yellow ; cilia white at tips. Underside
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 593 NOCTUID^. Fore wing silvery with golden reflections, tlic snrraco being fctriated, irrorated with a few black scales ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; rouiform small, oblique elliptical, slightly defined by whitish and black scales; postraedial line double' filled in with whitish, exciirved from costa to vein 4 and incurved in submedian fold ; a subterminal series of small black spots, angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wii]g very pale yellow ; cilia white at tips. Underside of both wings yellowish white. Huh. Natai, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 $ , Durban {Leifjli), 2 5 type. Exj). 24 millini. Genus PLUSIOCALPE. Plusiocalpe, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 29 (1894) Type. falluhi- Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uphurnetl, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long; frons smooth; eyes large, round ; antennse of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore and hind tibiaa slightly fringed with hair, the mid tibias fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, the tornus with scale-tooth, the inner margin with lobe before middle ; veins 3 and 5 froui near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Hind wing of male with thick fringe of long hair on inner area above. 7015. Plusiocalpe sericina. Metapiya sericina, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 730. 6. Head and tegulse ochreous white; thorax white faintly tinged with purplish brown and irrorated with a few brown scales; pectus and legs ochreous Avhite ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused wi
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