. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SYPXOIDES. 249 8054. Sypnoides equatorialis. St/pna cquttioriulis, Hull, rsyt-he, vii. p. 69 (1894). S â Head and thorax red-brown mixed witli some whitish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen gre3^-brown, the crests dark brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish brown slightly irrorated with black ; a reddish ochreous subbasal bar from costa to median nervure and white bar in submedian interspace ; medial area suffused with bluish white with a conical black-brown ])atch on it from costa to middle of cell and


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SYPXOIDES. 249 8054. Sypnoides equatorialis. St/pna cquttioriulis, Hull, rsyt-he, vii. p. 69 (1894). S â Head and thorax red-brown mixed witli some whitish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen gre3^-brown, the crests dark brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish brown slightly irrorated with black ; a reddish ochreous subbasal bar from costa to median nervure and white bar in submedian interspace ; medial area suffused with bluish white with a conical black-brown ])atch on it from costa to middle of cell and an oblique band from median nervure to inner margin towards which it expands; traces of a curved Avaved antemedial brown line on the white area;. Fig. 58.â Stjpnoides equatorialis, cf. \. orbicular a minute incomplete black annulus; reniform with reddish brown centre and bluish white annulus, oblique, its outer edge irregular; jjostmedial line indistinctly double, obliquely down- curved below costa, then slightly waved, somewhat incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, and obsolete on the white area, a dark brown spot beyond it on costa followed by some pale and dark striae; subterminal line black-brown defined on inner side by reddish ochreous, waved, oblique towards costa and excurved at middle; a series of slight black lunules before termen, the lunule in submedian interspace defined on outer side by white scales ; a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing reddish brown ; traces of a double medial line filled in with whitish on inner area ; an indistinct diffused postmedial line with some dark points on its outer side on inner area; an indistinct dark subterminal line, more distinct and somewhat dentate on inner half; a series of dark points and lunules before termen; a fine waved dark tenninal line and pale line at base of cilia; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have


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