. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 140 STNTOMID^. *264. Thyrogonia efulensis. Syntomis efulensis, Holland, Ent. News Philad. 1898, p. 12. $. Bluish black; abdomen with silvery blue lateral patches except towards extremity. Fore wing with quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell; slight whitish streaks above and below vein 6 and whitish patches in the interspaces between vein 5 and inner margin, towards which they increase in length, below Y\g. oS.—Thyrogonia efulensis, 2. k- "^ein 1 extending nearly to base. Hind wing with hyaline patches below the cell and bet
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 140 STNTOMID^. *264. Thyrogonia efulensis. Syntomis efulensis, Holland, Ent. News Philad. 1898, p. 12. $. Bluish black; abdomen with silvery blue lateral patches except towards extremity. Fore wing with quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell; slight whitish streaks above and below vein 6 and whitish patches in the interspaces between vein 5 and inner margin, towards which they increase in length, below Y\g. oS.—Thyrogonia efulensis, 2. k- "^ein 1 extending nearly to base. Hind wing with hyaline patches below the cell and between veins 2 and 4. Hah. W. Africa, Bule Country (Good), type t $ in Coll. Holland. ). 36 millim. Genus A PISA. Type. Apisa, Wlk. iv. 916 (1855) canescens. Proboscis absent or minute; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and clothed with hair; antennae bipectinate with long branches, shorter in female; head, thorax, and abdomen more or less clothed witli rough hair ; mid and bind tibia; with minute terminal pairs of spurs. Fore wing short, the termen very long; rein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; the discocellulars acutely angled; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing small; veins 3 and 5 separate at origin ; 4 absent; 7 absent; a short veinlet from angle of discocellulars. A. Fore wing dark brown, with hyaline spots. a. Abdomen with the ventral surface orange coimexa. h. Abdomen with the ventral surface white leucogastra. c. Abdomen with the ventral surface pink abdominalis. d. Abdomen with the ventral surface dark. a}. Abdomen witli subdorsal white spots chrysopyga. b^. Abdomen without spots. a^. Fore wing with the spots whitish kerri. V^. Fore wing with the antemedial spots yellow, the postmedial liyaline cleta. c\ Abdomen with dorsal and lateral orange spots tristigma. B. Fore wing pale brown, with triangular yellow antemedial patch monotica. C Fore wing uniform greyish canescens. D. Wings white ; fore wing with the apical
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