. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 418 NOCTtJIDJ!. vein 1, with nliglit green streaks on sui)Costal and median nervnres from it to postniedial line; a slight discoidal dark point; postmedial line black defined by green on outer side, oblicjuely excnrved and minutely waved from costa to vein 4, then incurved and with some white beyond the green near inner margin ; a slight minutely waved green sabtermiual line, slightly excurved below vein 7, oblique and whitish from vein 2 to tornus ; termen suffused with fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow with termina
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 418 NOCTtJIDJ!. vein 1, with nliglit green streaks on sui)Costal and median nervnres from it to postniedial line; a slight discoidal dark point; postmedial line black defined by green on outer side, oblicjuely excnrved and minutely waved from costa to vein 4, then incurved and with some white beyond the green near inner margin ; a slight minutely waved green sabtermiual line, slightly excurved below vein 7, oblique and whitish from vein 2 to tornus ; termen suffused with fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow with terminal black-brown band, wide at costa, narrowing to vein 2 and expanding towards tornus, some yellowish points on termen between veins 5 and 3; cilia with a fine yellowish line at base except towards tornus. Underside of fore wing fuscous, yellow at base. Hah. Aru Is. ; New GrriNEA, Humboldt Bay {Dohcrty), 1 $ type brachyptera. Exp. 82 millim. 6758. Blenina donans. Ble7iina donans, Wlk. siii. 1215 (1857); Moore, Lep. Cevl. iii. p. 129 pi. 160. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Mollis Ind. ii. p. 377. Aviplnjnjra laporlei, Fekl. Eeis. Nov. pi. 140. f. 28 (1874). Blenina grisea, Moore, S. 1877, p. 607, pi. 60. f. 1. Blenina fannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 157, pi. 5. f. 4 (1882). Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown, the vertex of head, base of tegulse and shoulders with some green ; palpi with some black at base of 3rd joint in front; abdomen orange- yellow, the crests white mixed with brown, the anal tuft whitish, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing white mixed with pale red-brown, the costal area slightly tinged. Fig. 156.—Blenina donans, (^. \. with green ; a curved dark striga at base of costal area ; subbasal line indistinct, dark, excurved below costa, then waved and ending at submedian fold ; a black point in middle of cell; medial line indistinct, blackish, sinuous ; a slight black discoidal striga with streak beyond it in discal fold to postmedial line, which is bent outwa
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