. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. streak at vein 4. Hind wing yellowish wLitc, tbo apex faintly tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous. 2 . Hind wing wholly tinged with rufous. JIab. Mashonalaxd, Salisbury (il/fo**7m/?, Dohhle),3 (^ , 1 2 typ' Transvaal, White it. (Coolce), 1 $, Piet Ketief {Craivshay), 1 Natal, Malvern {Marfihall)^ 2 J, Durban (Boivher), 2 J; Capk Colony, Anushaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ . Exj). 1:8-32 millim. Genus RAMESODES, nov. Type, 7?. divisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reac
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. streak at vein 4. Hind wing yellowish wLitc, tbo apex faintly tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous. 2 . Hind wing wholly tinged with rufous. JIab. Mashonalaxd, Salisbury (il/fo**7m/?, Dohhle),3 (^ , 1 2 typ' Transvaal, White it. (Coolce), 1 $, Piet Ketief {Craivshay), 1 Natal, Malvern {Marfihall)^ 2 J, Durban (Boivher), 2 J; Capk Colony, Anushaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ . Exj). 1:8-32 millim. Genus RAMESODES, nov. Type, 7?. divisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacbinsj about to middle of irons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales, the prothorax with slight spreading crest; tibire smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. .Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and slightly orenulate; reins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apes serrate, of female with short branches. 4652. Ramesodes divisa. Charidea divisa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. .Vfr. Mus. ii. p. 292 (1902). c? . Head and thorax black-brown ; antennae and base of tegul'w reddish brown ; abdomen ochreous white at base, fuscous brown at extremity. Fore wing blacli-brown slightly iiTorated with white scales, a broad ochreous fascia tinged with rufous above below costa from base through the cell to terraeu above vein o, defined below by a slight black streak above median nervure and vein 4 with fine white streak above it, the veins on the ochreous area. Fig. 109.—Ramesodes divisa., cJ brownish, a fine whibish streak below vein G, the inner margin and the submedian inters]
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