. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. HYPOTYPE. 385 costa, then dentate and produced to white points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some white points be_yond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, slight!}^ defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and slightly waved at middle : a terminal series of minute black lunules; cilia white with series of fuscous lunules. Hind wing pure white, the veins faintly tinged with fuscous at JAM ft\^.>^ - Fig. 127.—Hypoty]-)e 'plumbca, J. \. 5 . Abdomen and
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. HYPOTYPE. 385 costa, then dentate and produced to white points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some white points be_yond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, slight!}^ defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and slightly waved at middle : a terminal series of minute black lunules; cilia white with series of fuscous lunules. Hind wing pure white, the veins faintly tinged with fuscous at JAM ft\^.>^ - Fig. 127.—Hypoty]-)e 'plumbca, J. \. 5 . Abdomen and hind wing strongly suffused with fuscous, the latter with fuscous line through the cilia; the underside slightly irrorated with fuscous and with diffused terminal band. Hab. Palestine, Jerusalem, in Coll. Piiugeler. Exp. 44 millim. Sect. II. Antennas of male minutely ciliated. A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell iiigridentata. JB. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell scotomista. 2565. Hypotype nigridentata. (Plate CY. fig. 6.) Police nigridentata, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 278 (1902). S. Head grey and fuscous with white bar on vertex; tegulte grey and fuscous with some black scales at middle and whitish tips ; patagia and thorax grey and fuscous ; tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen ochreous saffused with fuscous. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with black ; a black streak below base of cell and a tuft of white scales followed by black scales at base ; an indistinct waved black antemedial line ; claviform indistinctly defined b}' black; orbicular and reniform large, rather indistinctly defined, the former rounded, the latter open above and below; postmedial line rather indistinct and diffused, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of dentate black marks with whitish suffusion beyond them, slightly angled out
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