. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. B05IB0TELIA. 11 very dark chocolate-brown suftused with greyish ; aiitemedial line dark, inwardly oblique, nearly straij,'ht, defined on each side by greyish; a slight wiiitish discoidal lunule ; postraedial line with whitish striga Ironi costa, then dark, slightly defined on onter side by greyish, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and slightly angled inwards ju;-t below vein 2, some whitish points beyond it on costa and a chocolate-red patch below costa; subterminal line incurved and whitish from costa to ve
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. B05IB0TELIA. 11 very dark chocolate-brown suftused with greyish ; aiitemedial line dark, inwardly oblique, nearly straij,'ht, defined on each side by greyish; a slight wiiitish discoidal lunule ; postraedial line with whitish striga Ironi costa, then dark, slightly defined on onter side by greyish, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and slightly angled inwards ju;-t below vein 2, some whitish points beyond it on costa and a chocolate-red patch below costa; subterminal line incurved and whitish from costa to vein 7, then slight, pale, incurved below vein 4 and ending at tornus ; a slight pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly chocolate-brown, greyish towards apex; a darU discoidal point and postmedial series of points on the veins just before the terminal band ; a whitish mark on t^^rmen at subraedial fold; a fine whitish line at base of cilia ; the underside with the costal area and cell irrorated with chocolate-brown, the terminal area chocolate-brown except towards tornus where it is white with a dark patch on it, an elliptical black discoidal spot defined by white, and curved postmedial series of points on the veins. Hah. Br. j!^. Guinea, Aroa E, (Meek), type t ? i'l Coll. lloth- schild. Kvj). 24 millim. 6206. Bombotelia jocosatrix. roiicillaria jocomtrix, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 304 (1852); Jfoore, Lep. Ccjl. iii. p. 6l', pi. l.')L if. 8, 8ff ; Ilnipsii. Moths Iiul. ii. p. 3'Jo. Head and thorax deep purple-brown, abdomen ruther redder brown ; pectus whitish tinged \\ ith rufous ; spurs and tarsi ringed with white. I'ore wing deep purple-brown tinged with grey ;. .Fig. 6. — Bomhotdia jocos', J. \. antemedial line bhickish slightly defined on inner side by white, excurved from costa to just below cell, then oblique, a darker patch beyond it on costa; ])ostmedial line indistinct, dark and oblique from costa to vein 6, then slightly defined on oute
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