. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 728 AKCTIAD-E. area orange with oblique sinuous outer edge from costa towards apex to vein 1; the rest of wing black, the black extending to base on inner area. Underside of fore wing orange, the costal and terminal areas black-brown, black-brown spots in cell and on dis- cocellulars connected by a wedge-shaped patch as above. 5 . Fore wing with the orange areas more extensive and the black reduced, the black on terminal part of median nervure reduced to a streak not touching the discoidal spot, the orange beyond the postmedi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 728 AKCTIAD-E. area orange with oblique sinuous outer edge from costa towards apex to vein 1; the rest of wing black, the black extending to base on inner area. Underside of fore wing orange, the costal and terminal areas black-brown, black-brown spots in cell and on dis- cocellulars connected by a wedge-shaped patch as above. 5 . Fore wing with the orange areas more extensive and the black reduced, the black on terminal part of median nervure reduced to a streak not touching the discoidal spot, the orange beyond the postmedial band wider; bind wing with the orange extending to beyond middle of wing and to inner margin. Hab. Obt, Saiwui (Doherti/), type t c? 2 in Coll. liothschild; Obi Major (Waterstradt). Exp. '22-26 millim. 882 a. Xanthetis spurrelli, n. sp. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 coincident. Head and thorax pale yellow; pectus, hind legs, and abdomen whitish. Fore wing yellow with diffused markings formed of red- brown scales ; a spot at base of costa; an oblique subbasal line. Fig. 241.—Xanthetis spurrelli, J. \. angled outwards below the costa and cell; antemedial line obscurely double, much diffused and waved ; a streak beyond it in lower part of cell; postmedial line indistinctly double and much diffused, dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, a series of diffused spots beyond it, and a terminal series of diffused spots. Hind wing yellow. Underside of fore wing orange with the terminal area whitish. Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 6. 2 $ type. Exp. d 20, $ 22 millim. 883. Endrosa aurita, insert:— Ab. catJierinei, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1908, p. 291. Ab. fidirjinosa, Blachier, Bull. Soc. Lep. Geneva, ii. p. 57, pi. i. f. 1 (1910), forab. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British M
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