. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 486 NOCTTJIDiE. the inner margin with scale-tooth near tornus; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 fi-om angle of cell; 6 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5733. CEderastria ectorhoda. (Ederastria ectorhoda, Hmpsn. Ann, S, Afr. Mus. ii. p. 375 (1902). c?. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with bright rufous, palpi bl
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 486 NOCTTJIDiE. the inner margin with scale-tooth near tornus; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 fi-om angle of cell; 6 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5733. CEderastria ectorhoda. (Ederastria ectorhoda, Hmpsn. Ann, S, Afr. Mus. ii. p. 375 (1902). c?. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with bright rufous, palpi black; pectus aud legs with some whitish mixed, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white; abdomen rufous mixed with dark brown, the crests tipped with black. Fore wing black-brown mixed with some rufous and with a silvery grej^ gloss, the terminal area bright rufous with a black spot glossed with grey at apex; subbasal line represented by double black strife filled in with rufous from costa; antemedial line double, black tilled in with rufous, sinuous, with an oblique black mark before it above inner margin ; claviform moderate, with slight grey annulus defined by black;. Fig. 141. — (Ederastria cctorlioda, (^. f. orbicular and reniform with rufous annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter elliptical: medial line indistinct, oblique to reniform and incurved below the cell; postmedial line double filled in with pale rufous and defined by pale rufous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale rufous, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, then incurved ; a fine waved dark terminal line; cilia pale rufous at base. Hind wing pure white; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia red-brown at apex ; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal spot and rather diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, Rab.
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