. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 470 AECTIAD^:. 2066. Teracotona euprepia. (Plate L. fig. 13.) Teracotona euprepia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 58 (1900). (S . Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi crimson, black at tips; frons with crimson bar above ; antennae black, crimson towards base; edges of tegulas and patagia crimson; pectus and femora crimson; tibiae black, fringed with ochreous hair; tarsi black; abdomen orange, clothed with crimson hair at base, subdorsal, lateral, and sublatera
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 470 AECTIAD^:. 2066. Teracotona euprepia. (Plate L. fig. 13.) Teracotona euprepia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 58 (1900). (S . Head and thorax ochreous white; palpi crimson, black at tips; frons with crimson bar above ; antennae black, crimson towards base; edges of tegulas and patagia crimson; pectus and femora crimson; tibiae black, fringed with ochreous hair; tarsi black; abdomen orange, clothed with crimson hair at base, subdorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing pale ochreous with a flesh tint; the veins and streaks in cell and submedian fold black ; a strongly curved black antemedial line; a discoidal lunule ; the postmedial line developed into a small spot below costa, angled at vein 5, then strongly incurved; a fine black terminal line ; cilia orange. Hind wing crimson, with slight black discoidal lunule and some points on apical half of termen ; cilia orange. Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 3 S type. Eocp. 54 millim. 2067. Teracotona rhodophaea. Aloa rhodophaa, Wlk. xxxi. 302 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 243. Head and thorax whitish, more or less tinged with brown; palpi scarlet above, the 3rd joint black ; neck with scarlet ring ; patagia. Fig. 205.— Teracotona rhodophcea, (S. j. with black points and edged with scarlet above ; a scarlet stripe below wings; the femora scarlet above, the tibiae and tarsi streaked with brown; abdomen scarlet above, grey-white below, with sub- dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing white, more or less completely suffused and irrorated with dark brown, but always having a patch of white below base of cell; the antemedial brown line strongly but obtusely angled on median nervure: a medial line bent outwards between discal and submedian folds and diffused outwardly ; a black discoidal lunule; the
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