. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BDTEEPXODES TKIOCNEMIS. 395 at apex with oblique black bar across apex ; subterminal line white on the grey area black before it on costa, then defined hj waved grey marks on its inner side, almost obsolete between veins 6 and 4 and with a grey spot beyond it above tornus ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing glossy white with slight discoidal spot, curved slightly waved postmedial line, and terminal series of black striae; the underside with small black-brown discoidal spot, the curved postmedial line repr
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. BDTEEPXODES TKIOCNEMIS. 395 at apex with oblique black bar across apex ; subterminal line white on the grey area black before it on costa, then defined hj waved grey marks on its inner side, almost obsolete between veins 6 and 4 and with a grey spot beyond it above tornus ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing glossy white with slight discoidal spot, curved slightly waved postmedial line, and terminal series of black striae; the underside with small black-brown discoidal spot, the curved postmedial line represented by some black scales in parts. 2 . Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous. Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 <S ; Transvaal, Piet Retief (Craivshay), 2 J, 3 5 , White E,. {Coohe), 1 J; Zultjland, Lr. Tugela R. {Reynolds), 1 c5'; C. Colony, Table Mt., 1 S • Exp. 30-32 millim. Genus TRIOCNEMIS. Trivc7icmis, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 77 (1881) Type. saporis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the third short; frons with large ronuded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna? of male almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with large tufted crest; tibiffi moderately fringed with hair, the fore tihite very short, forming a large semilunar plate at extremity with large and small claws on inner side ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the apex rounaed, the termen obliquely 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 areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from just below middle of diecocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4858. Triocnemis saporis. Triocnemis saporis, G
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