. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. THUMATHA. GRArXASCRA. 421 Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond tlie frons, wliich is clothed with rough hair; anteniuB of male bipectinate, with short 8t it}'branches dilated at extremity; tibiiu with the spurs moderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing rather short and broad; -vein 2 from middle of cell ; '6 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell; 3, 4 stalked ; 5
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. THUMATHA. GRArXASCRA. 421 Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond tlie frons, wliich is clothed with rough hair; anteniuB of male bipectinate, with short 8t it}'branches dilated at extremity; tibiiu with the spurs moderate; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing rather short and broad; -vein 2 from middle of cell ; '6 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from near middle of discocelliilars; 6, 7 on a long stalk; 8 from towards end of cell. A. Wings orange ineonstans. ii. Wings grey-brown funceace/is. 890. Tliumatha ineonstans. Dictenus ineonstans, Butl. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 845, pi. xlii. f. 5. (S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, sometimes some orange hair on vertex of head ; the base of abdomen with some orange hair; anal tuft orange ; wings orange-yellow, clothed with hair-like scales. Fore wing with a little black sutfusion at base ; the costa and inner margin black ; a black discoidal spot; a terminal black band with minutely dentate inner edge. Hind wing with tuscous discoidal point. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal half only of costa and inner margin black ; no terminal black band. Hab. NiASA-LAND, Mt. Kasuugu 7425 ft. (Craivshay), 2 J, type, j&ap. 20 millim. 891. Thumatha fuscescens. Thumatha fuscescens, Wlk. xxxv. 1901 (1806); Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 86, pi. 158. f. 18; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 122; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 364. Nudaria infantida, Saalm. Eer. Senck. Gres. 1879, p. 261; id. Lep. Madag. p. 168, pi. 6. f. 81 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 361. ISca-vdora rava, , P. Linn. Soc. N. S. VV.(2) iv. p. 1079 (1890); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 348. Grey-brown; fore and mid tibite and tarsi blackish above. Fore wing with blackish sutfusion at base of costal area; traces of an antemedial line angled outwards on subcostal and med
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