. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 392 Genus NEOCHEOSTIS. rpyp^ Neochrostis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 406 (1902) diplogramma. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate : frons with pointed beak-shaped prominence with somewhat trifid process below it and the frons produced to points at sides; eyes large, round; antennffi of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibise smoothly scaled ;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 392 Genus NEOCHEOSTIS. rpyp^ Neochrostis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 406 (1902) diplogramma. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate : frons with pointed beak-shaped prominence with somewhat trifid process below it and the frons produced to points at sides; eyes large, round; antennffi of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibise smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5595. Neochrostis diplogramma. Neochrostis diplogramma, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 407 (1902). (S. Head and thorax red-brown; palpi whitish, dark at tips; the tegulse with slight dark medial line; pectus and legs pale rufous, the tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen pale rufous tinged with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Pore wing rufous suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by slight double dark points below costa and cell; antemedial line double, black,. Fig. 125.—Neochrostis diplogramma, (^. \. evenly curved; orbicular small, round, defined by black and with blackish point in centre; reniform rufous defined by black and with some brown in centre, narrow, strongly angled inwards on median nervure to a spot obliquely placed below orbicular; a black medial shade, oblique to reniform and incurved below the cell; postmedial line double, black, dilated at costa, excurved below costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some yellow
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