. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ODONTESTKA. 205 Genus ODONTESTRA, uov. Type, 0. vittigera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi sboi't, oblique, fringed with hair in front ; frons with rounded prominence with small corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded; antennne of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen with dorsal crest on Ist segment only. Fore wing rather short and broad, the ternien evenly curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastom
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ODONTESTKA. 205 Genus ODONTESTRA, uov. Type, 0. vittigera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi sboi't, oblique, fringed with hair in front ; frons with rounded prominence with small corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded; antennne of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen with dorsal crest on Ist segment only. Fore wing rather short and broad, the ternien evenly curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; b obsolescent from middle of disco- cellulars, B, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing without whitish streak below vein 2 vittigcra. B. Fore wing with whitish streak below vein 2. a. Fore wing without M'hitish fascia on inner margin albivitta. b. Fore wing with whitisli fascia on inner margin. a?. Fore wing with the subteruiinal line narrow, whitish. «'-. Hind wing white, the terminal area suflused with fuscous simiUima. /*-. Hind wing uniformly suffused with fuscous potanini. i'. Fore wing with the subterminal line broader, yellowish submargincdls. 1419. Odontestra vittigera. Mamestra vitfigera, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 266 (1902). c5'. Head and thorax purplish fuscous mixed with grey and red; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface dark brown. Fore wing purplish fuscous, the medial area more or less tinged with purplish pink; subbasal line represented by pink striae from costa and cell, with diffused black on each side of them; ante- medial line double, filled in by brown, curved; claviform large,. Fig. 28.— Odontestra vittigera, (^. \. filled in with black ; orbicular usually obsolete, sometimes a small round ochreous spot ; reniform large, ochreous white defined by black and with rufous c
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