. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. MNIOTHRIPA.—SAEEOTHRIPUS. 201 6535. Mniothripa lichenigera. Giaiira lichenigera, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 543 (1905). Head and thorax greenish grey more or less mixed with reddish brown and black ; palpi reddish brown at sides barred with black ; fore tibiie reddish brown in front barred with black ; abdomen grey dorsally tinged with fuscous browu. Fore wing grey more or less tinged Avith green and irrorated with fuscous, sometimes mostly suffused with red-bx"0',vn ; a diffused black fascia in sub- median
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. MNIOTHRIPA.—SAEEOTHRIPUS. 201 6535. Mniothripa lichenigera. Giaiira lichenigera, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 543 (1905). Head and thorax greenish grey more or less mixed with reddish brown and black ; palpi reddish brown at sides barred with black ; fore tibiie reddish brown in front barred with black ; abdomen grey dorsally tinged with fuscous browu. Fore wing grey more or less tinged Avith green and irrorated with fuscous, sometimes mostly suffused with red-bx"0',vn ; a diffused black fascia in sub- median interspace, sometimes confined to medial area, ending at post- medial line or downeurved at extremity and reaching tornus, another streak above inner margin from near base to postmedial line some- times present; a subbasal line of raised black scales, oblique from costa to cell where it is angled and ending at submedian fold; a very obliijue sinuous anteraedial line retracted to costa ; a round. Fig. 95.—Mniothripa lichenigera, (^. J. tuft of raised scales in end of cell; postmedial line formed of raised black scales, sinuous, very oblique from costa to vein 4, below vein 3 retracted to lower angle of cell, then rather oblique and defined by white on outer side to inner margin, sometimes with a black patch at costa; subtermiiuil line whitish with diffused fuscous on inner side, excurved at vein 7 and at middle, bent inwards at vein 3, then oblique to near tornus ; a terminal series of black points sometimes with a fuscous band before them from below apex to vein 3. Ilind wirjg fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, the inter- spaces pale except on terminal area. Ab. 1. Fore wing suffused with deep green except on medial costal area and without the black fascia. Ab. 2. Fore wing deep silvery purple-grey without any green tinge and without the black fascia. Ilab. SiEEKA Leone {CUments), 1 d' ; S. Nigeria, Olokemeji {Buihjeon), 1 S ; Sikhim, 1 5 ; Singapore (Ridlei/, Wood-Jones)
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