. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. oS'2 IMIAL r\<ili)ll).K. 153 a. Hoplarista haemaplaga. Hoplarista hsemaplaga, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 399, pi. xxxvi. f. 24 ; Jord. Seitz, xv. Afr. ii. p. 13, pi. 4«. c?. Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with pale yellow and some orange; irons with lateral yellowish white spots above; pectus orange; legs banded black and orange; abdomen banded black and orange, the ventral surface dark brown with series of yellow bars. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown irrorated with silvery blue and sonic yellow scales;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. oS'2 IMIAL r\<ili)ll).K. 153 a. Hoplarista haemaplaga. Hoplarista hsemaplaga, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 399, pi. xxxvi. f. 24 ; Jord. Seitz, xv. Afr. ii. p. 13, pi. 4«. c?. Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with pale yellow and some orange; irons with lateral yellowish white spots above; pectus orange; legs banded black and orange; abdomen banded black and orange, the ventral surface dark brown with series of yellow bars. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown irrorated with silvery blue and sonic yellow scales; a triangular yellow antemedial patch in cell with elongate blood-red patch below it, connected with the oblique yellow medial band extending from below costa to submedian fold, edged by blood-red at sides, its inner edge slightly angled inwards at median nervure and submedian fold and its outer edge strongly dilated below; a postnndial yellow patch from below costa to vein 2, rounded above and its lower extremity pointed and. Fig. 111.— Hoplarista hsemavlaga, <J. ]. bent inwards. Hind wing deep orange; a slight black discoidal lunule ; a black-brown terminal band, its inner edge slightly in- curved at discal fold and strongly at vein 2; a small yellow spot on termen at submedian fold. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costa black-brown except towards base; a black-brown and red spot in middle of cell with red spot below it in submedian interspace, a large lunulate discoidal patch connected with the dark costa and with some dark suffusion below it, a broad dark terminal band oding towards apex and interrupted by yellow below vein 2; hind wing with the costa black-brown to near base. $. Fore wing with the antemedial patch in cell red with slight yellow spot on it, widely separated from the medial band which is narrower and less dilated below, the postmedial patch not extending 1 .low vein 4 where it is somewhat pointed on outer side; hind wing with the terminal band broa
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