. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 114 4445. Einarginea gammophora. Eiiiarginca gammoijhura, Gucn. Noct. ii. p. 289, pi. 14. f. 1 (1852). (5. Head white; palpi black except at tips; antennjc black except at base; thorax deep velvety black, the metathorax bright rufous and white : mid and hind tibia) with white patches, the tarsi with the 1st three joints white ; abdomen black-brown, the basal crest white, the lateral fringes and ventral surface white. Fore wing white, extending on costa to near middle and below the cell to ]»c)stnicdial line, the basa
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 114 4445. Einarginea gammophora. Eiiiarginca gammoijhura, Gucn. Noct. ii. p. 289, pi. 14. f. 1 (1852). (5. Head white; palpi black except at tips; antennjc black except at base; thorax deep velvety black, the metathorax bright rufous and white : mid and hind tibia) with white patches, the tarsi with the 1st three joints white ; abdomen black-brown, the basal crest white, the lateral fringes and ventral surface white. Fore wing white, extending on costa to near middle and below the cell to ]»c)stnicdial line, the basal area suffused with orange, the terminal half black suffused Avith leaden grey leaving a white wodgc-shaped a])ical patch extending to vein 4 and tinged with fulvous yellow on lower half and a rounded fulvous-yellow patch i'f^'i*.. Fig. 32.—Emarginca gammophora, (S. \. at tornus ; a black streak below median nervure curved up to base of costa and a short streak above base of inner margin ; sliglit subbasal and antemedial black stria? from costa; a medial fulvous striga from costa near inner edge of the black area, followed by a whitish patch centred with fulvous and with black streak on costa and an oblique white bar from its lower edge to the white area at median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, black slightly defined by whitish scales on outer side, oblique and minutely waved to vein 4, then strongly incurved and defined by white on outer side, a white striga beyond it on costa and a black striga on the apical patch ; some slight fuscous suffusion on the fulvous ])atch at tornus ; a terminal series of black stria3; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing pure white slightly tinged Avith brown at apex and on tcrmen ; the underside wilh the costal area irrorated with a few black scales. 5 . Fore wing with Idack patch at base with curved oxiter edge conjoined at costa to the medial black area, the curved Avhite mark at end of cell reduced; hind Aving with rather more
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