. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 280 >'OCTUID^. 3874. Laphygma apertura. Proclenia apertura, Wlk. xxxii. (\t^A (ISfin). Prodenia si/nstic/is, Hiupsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 511 (1890). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; palpi brown except at tips : vertex of head with some blackish scales ; tejrulae with slight dark medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish; abdomen ochreous wliite, the basal crest blackish. Fore wing ochreous suffused with dark brown and greyish and irrorated with black, the medial area with the median nervure, vein 2 and
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 280 >'OCTUID^. 3874. Laphygma apertura. Proclenia apertura, Wlk. xxxii. (\t^A (ISfin). Prodenia si/nstic/is, Hiupsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 511 (1890). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; palpi brown except at tips : vertex of head with some blackish scales ; tejrulae with slight dark medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish; abdomen ochreous wliite, the basal crest blackish. Fore wing ochreous suffused with dark brown and greyish and irrorated with black, the medial area with the median nervure, vein 2 and the bases of veins 3, 4 streaked with ochreous white ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa and cell, with an oblique blackish mark beyond it across subinedian interspace; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with ochreous, angled outwards below costa, excurved in suhmedian interspace and retracted to inner margin ; claviform moderate, blackish ; orbicular and reniform ochreous defined by black and with pale brown. Fig, 67.—Lripliiigina apertura, (^ . 3. centres, the former narrow, oblique, its lower extremity produced and confluent with the latter which is produced at upper extremity, some ochreous above base of vein 2; an oblique waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin, interrupted by the streak on vein 2; postmedial double filled in with ochreous, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved, and incurved at discal and suhmedian folds, some minute pale points beyond it on costa ; a subterminal series of ochreous strioe with small some- what dentate black marks on their inner side except towards costa ; a series of ochreous string just before terinen on which there is a series of black points; cilia with fine whitish line at base. Hind wing pure white with slight dark points on a])ieal half of termen ; the underside with the costa slightly tinged with brown. Huh. C. China, Ichang {Mrs. Pratt), 1 J; Madra
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