. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 390 AECTIAD^. 830. Siccia S'ccia caffra, Wlk. ii. 639 (1854); Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 368. Lithosia nigropunctata, Wllgrn. Wieu. Ent. Moc. iv. p. 46 (1860); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 368. Melania punctigera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. S. 34, 35 (1874). Pale grey-brown ; palpi, frons, and fore legs above blackish. Tore wing irrorated with a few black scales; subbasal and ante- medial black spots on costa and below cell; medial spots on costa, in cell, and ou inner margin ; a cliscoidal spot; an indistinct post- me
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 390 AECTIAD^. 830. Siccia S'ccia caffra, Wlk. ii. 639 (1854); Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 368. Lithosia nigropunctata, Wllgrn. Wieu. Ent. Moc. iv. p. 46 (1860); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 368. Melania punctigera, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. S. 34, 35 (1874). Pale grey-brown ; palpi, frons, and fore legs above blackish. Tore wing irrorated with a few black scales; subbasal and ante- medial black spots on costa and below cell; medial spots on costa, in cell, and ou inner margin ; a cliscoidal spot; an indistinct post- medial line strongly bent outwards below costa and angled on veins 6 and 4, then incurved to below end of cell and excurved again ; a diffused triangular wedge- shaped patch from costa to vein 5 ; terminal spots be- Y]g. 303 —Siccia caffra, (S. |. low apex, at middle, and above tornus with slight points between them. Hind wing whitish, slightly tinged with brown towards costa and termen and with indistinct discoidal point; more uniformly tinged with brown in female. Ilab. Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 c?, 3 $ ; Cape Colony, Knysna {Trimen), 3^,2$, type. Exp. 20-24 millim. 031. Siccia punctipennis. Lithosiapunciipennis, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 46 (1860); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 368. Autoccras nigropunciana, Saalm. Lep. Madag. i. p. 169, pi. 7. f. 103 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 368. c?. Pale grey-brow n suffused -with fuscous. Fore wing with subbasal spot on costa : the antemedial line arising from a spot on costa, strongly angled outwards to a spot below the cell, then re- tracted ; a spot at middle of cell; the medial line arising from a sj)ot on costa, angled outwards in cell, then oblique and minutely dentate ; a discoidal spot; the postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa and angled at veins 6 and 4, then retracted ; a subterminal spot on costa with an obscure spot below it and two above inner margin; a terminal series of points. Hind wing fuscous. A
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