. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 482 NOCTUIDJD, laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibire smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeu evenly cui-ved and not crenulate ; veins 3 aad 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from angle of cell; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *6832. Leucophanera argyrozona. Leucophanera argyro
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 482 NOCTUIDJD, laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibire smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeu evenly cui-ved and not crenulate ; veins 3 aad 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from angle of cell; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. *6832. Leucophanera argyrozona. Leucophanera argyrozona, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1911, p. 117. 5 . Head and thorax silvery white; palpi except at extremity • of 2nd joiut and base of 3rd brown ; antennae brown ; legs brown, the tibiae and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wingsilver)' white; small triangular cupreous brown subbasal and antemcdial spots on costa suffused with metallic silver and defined by black on outer side; an antemedial black point above vein 1; an erect medial cupreous brown band suffused with. Fig. 180.—Leucophanera argyrozona, §. |. metallic silver and defined by slightly sinuous black lines, a black discoidal striga on it; a subterminal series of irregular dentate black marks with a cupreous brown band suffused with metallic silver beyond them leaving the termen white with a series of small black spots. Hind wing white very faintly tinged with brown and with a terminal series of blackish strige ; the underside with the basal costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, waved postmedial and subterminal lines, and terminal series of small black lunules. Hah. Up. Guinea, Oudoula {Sigui7n), type t $ in Coll. Joannis. Exy. 18 millim. Genus TITULCIA. Tvpe. Titulcia, Wlk. xxix. 810 (1864) eximia. Proboscis rather small; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint oblique, extending about twice the length of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd very long and slender, an
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