. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HELIOPHISMA. 463 vein 1, its outer edge slightly waved ; the terminal area suffused with fulvous below vein 3; the underside yellow suffused and irrorated with brown except on inner area, a blackish discoidal point, curved brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2, diffused subterminal shade, and series of blackish points before termcn. Hah. Br. E. Africa, Pemba I., 1 S tjp^- 56 millim. 7589. Heliophisma croceipennis. Ophisvia croceipennis, Wlk. xiv. 1377 (1857). Ophisma varians, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1897, p. 224. H
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HELIOPHISMA. 463 vein 1, its outer edge slightly waved ; the terminal area suffused with fulvous below vein 3; the underside yellow suffused and irrorated with brown except on inner area, a blackish discoidal point, curved brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2, diffused subterminal shade, and series of blackish points before termcn. Hah. Br. E. Africa, Pemba I., 1 S tjp^- 56 millim. 7589. Heliophisma croceipennis. Ophisvia croceipennis, Wlk. xiv. 1377 (1857). Ophisma varians, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1897, p. 224. Head and thorax orange-yellow; palpi, antennae, fore legs and the tarsi brown ; abdomen yellow, the ventral siirface tinged with brown. Fore wing orange-yellow irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line red-brown, somewhat oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line red-brown, oblique; reniform small, defined by red-brown ; medial line oblique, red-brown ; postmedial line oblique to vein 6, then slightly incurved and minutely waved ;. Fig. 109.—Heliophisma croceipennis, ^. \. subterminal line red-brown, oblique, slightly sinuous, a series of brown points just before termen ; cilia red-brown, whitish at tips except towards tornus. Hind wing yellow ; a wedge-shaped black postmedial patch between veins 6 and 2 ; blackish points before termen between veins 5 and 2; cilia red-brown. Underside yellow, the costa and termen of fore wing and the hind wing tinged with brown, the latter with faint curved medial and tAvo postmedial lines. Ab. 1 varians. Fore wing with blackish spots before the. 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 Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 10th bart. , 1860-1936. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees
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