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. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 213 4579. Ectolopha viridescens. Ectolopha viridescens, Hnipsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. j). 383 (1902). Head and thorax yellowish white with some red-brown on head, dorsal edge of tegulfe, and vertex of thorax ; patagia rufous and green on dorsal edge; aVjdoraen yellowish white dorsally suffused with rufous except at extremity. Pore wing pale yellow-green ; subbasal line purple-grey, obliquely curved, from costa to median iiervure; a purplish grey patch on middle of costa crossed by the darker double antemedial, singl
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 213 4579. Ectolopha viridescens. Ectolopha viridescens, Hnipsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. j). 383 (1902). Head and thorax yellowish white with some red-brown on head, dorsal edge of tegulfe, and vertex of thorax ; patagia rufous and green on dorsal edge; aVjdoraen yellowish white dorsally suffused with rufous except at extremity. Pore wing pale yellow-green ; subbasal line purple-grey, obliquely curved, from costa to median iiervure; a purplish grey patch on middle of costa crossed by the darker double antemedial, single medial, and double postmedial lines; an irregularly conical yellowish white patch on middle of inner margin, its inner and outer edges angled outwards on vein 1, irrorated with rufous, defined by rufous and traversed by the rufous postmedial line; the antemedial and medial lines obsolete except on the costal patch, the postmedial line oblique towards costa, angled outwards on vein 6, oblique to vein 4, dentate to vein 2, then incurved, with purple-grey patch before it beyond lower angle. Pig. 78.—Ectolopha viridescens, (S . \. of cell; a subterminal series of slight rufous points ; cilia green with fuscous lines at middle and tips. Hind wing greyish fuscous, the inner area yellowish white ; cilia ochreous mixed with brown. Underside of fore wing fuscous with the base and inner area yellowish white; hind wing yellowish white, the terminal half suffused with fuscous except on inner area. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial grey patch on costa almost obsolete, some dentate whitish marks on subterminal line towards costa. Hah. Br. E. Africa, Taveta (Rogers), 2 $, Xikuyu (CrairsJi(()t), 1 2; Uganda, Mulema {Dof/gett), 1 ? ; ^Iashonalaxd, Salisbury (J/ars7tflZ?), 4 2 type ; Transvaal {Feud), 2 5 . Exp. 40 millim. 4580. Ectolopha marginata, n. sp. (Plate CXLII. fig. 0.) Head red-brown ; thorax yellowish white tinged with green, the base of tegulse and pro- and metalhoracic crests red
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