. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NOCTUID^:. Type. castaneotincta. Genus TUMIDIFKONTIA. Tumidijroniia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 282 (1902) Proboscis absent; palpi very short, porrect, and slightly fringed with hair elow, not reacliing nearly to extremity of the very large rounded frontal prominence, with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches to apex ; thorax clotiied chietly with scales, pro- and metathorax with large spreading crests; tibije fringed with long hair, the tarsal joints with slight t
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NOCTUID^:. Type. castaneotincta. Genus TUMIDIFKONTIA. Tumidijroniia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mas. ii. p. 282 (1902) Proboscis absent; palpi very short, porrect, and slightly fringed with hair elow, not reacliing nearly to extremity of the very large rounded frontal prominence, with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches to apex ; thorax clotiied chietly with scales, pro- and metathorax with large spreading crests; tibije fringed with long hair, the tarsal joints with slight tui'ts of hnir; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of ceU; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 froui upper angle; 8 anas- tomosing with the cell near base only. 4311. Tumidifrontia castaneotincta. Tu7nidifronfia castaneotincta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 283 (1902). c? . Head aud thorax rufous mixed with grey and a few blackish scales ; tegulfe and patagia at tips and thoracic crests bright rufous ; legs pale rufous, the tufts of hair on tarsal joints whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous except at sides towards base, the crests bright rufous. Fore wing pale violaceous grey suffused with pinkish on basal and costal areas, the medial area whitish; some black irroratiou at base and on inner area before the antemedial line, which is pale rufous defined by whitish on inner side, minutely waved, oblique; orbicular and reniforra rather small, whitish. Fig. 1. — TumiJifrontia castaneotincta, c?. defined by diffused rufous, bhe former round, the latter with rufous line in centre ; a rufoxis medial line, diffused to median nervure, then sinuous ; postmedial line indistinct, rufous de
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