. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ODOI^TESTie. 633 hair above; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male moderately ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen with crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenu- late, the inner margin with lobe and scale-tooth at middle and scale-tooth at tornus ; 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 c
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ODOI^TESTie. 633 hair above; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male moderately ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen with crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenu- late, the inner margin with lobe and scale-tooth at middle and scale-tooth at tornus ; 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; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Hind tibis of male greatly dilated and fringed with long hair; hind wing on underside with fringe of scales in lower extremity of cell. A. Fore wing with double-humped dark patch on middle of costa cyphonoia. B, Fore wing with triangular dark patch on middle of prosiicta. 7077. Odontestis cyphonota, n. sp. (Plate CXCI, fig. 2.) S . Head and thorax grey, the head and tegular tinged with fuscous ; fore legs and mid tibiae tinged with fuscous, the fringe of hair on hind tibiae ochreous tipped with brown ; abdomen ochreous grej', the crests at base of dorsum brownish. Fore wing grey faintly tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with dark scales ; a purplish fuscous patch at middle of costa edged with black-brown, its lower edge somewhat excised and forming a double hump ; a black point at lower angle of cell; postmedial line brownish, almost obsolete toward cosla, below which it is excurved, then oblique and somewhat diffused ; traces of a diffused subterminal line, excurved at middle, then incurved. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown; cilia with a tine pale line at base. Ilab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 c? type. Es2). 26 millim. 7078. Odontestis prosticta. Plusiocalpeprosiida, Holl
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