. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 55 Si/ntomis molanna, Walleugr. OtV. , Forh. xxxii. (1) p. 9i (1876). Browa, with a golden tini^o ; frons aud patagia pale yellow ; metathorax banded with yellow; abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of conjoined orange-yellow spots, which meet towards ex- tremity. Fore wing with wedge- shaped hyaline patch in end of cell and quadrate patch below the end ; an elongate postmedial Fig. , S- \. ^P^*^ ^^°^^ ^^^° '^ ^"'^ ^^"^ fP.^'^l between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with large hyaline patch


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 55 Si/ntomis molanna, Walleugr. OtV. , Forh. xxxii. (1) p. 9i (1876). Browa, with a golden tini^o ; frons aud patagia pale yellow ; metathorax banded with yellow; abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of conjoined orange-yellow spots, which meet towards ex- tremity. Fore wing with wedge- shaped hyaline patch in end of cell and quadrate patch below the end ; an elongate postmedial Fig. , S- \. ^P^*^ ^^°^^ ^^^° '^ ^"'^ ^^"^ fP.^'^l between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with large hyaline patch below the cell and between veins 2 and 5, leaving the costal area brown, and a terminal band broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, and dentate at vein 2. Hah. CoxGO (Carror), type ; Natal (J". M, Hatchiiison, J. V. Gooch) • Cape (A. Smith). Exp. 24—26 millim. 56. TrichaBta bivittata. (Plate II. fig. 2.) Syntomis bivittata, Wlk. xxxi. 66 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 105. S. Black-brown; head, tegulce, and patagia golden yellow: antennae brown ; metathorax with a yellow patch ; abdomen with series of dorsal and lateral conjoined yellow spots meeting on penultimate segment and a patch on anal segment. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in end of cell and quadrate patch below the cell; an elongate postmedial spot above vein 6 and two spots between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with large hyaline patch below the cell and between veins 2 and 5, leaving the costal area brown, and a terminal band broad at apex, narrowing to tornus and dentate at vein 2. Hah. SiEKRA Leo^je, 2 S types {Mrs. Focccroft). Exp. 20 millim. b. Abdomen smoothly scaled. rt'. Fore wing with six hyaline spots vigorsi. 6'. Fore wing witli at, most three patches. a^. Fore wing with the markings hyaline white, a'. Frons and patagia white ; abdomen with ventral white bauds detracta. b^. Frons, patagia, and abdomen without wliite. a*. Abdomen with three ventral yellow bands irizonata. b^. Abdomen without ve


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