. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 510 3372. Diparopsis castanea. Blparopsis castanea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 294 (1902). c5". Head and thorax purplish pink mixed with whitish and some fuscous; antennae ochreous white, pectus ochreous white, purplish piuk in front; abdomen ochreousi white. Fore win^ purplish pink mixed with whitish, the costa irrorated with olive scales ; antemedial line whitish, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then erect, dark brown band before it from costa to median nervure and by a wedge-shaped
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 510 3372. Diparopsis castanea. Blparopsis castanea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 294 (1902). c5". Head and thorax purplish pink mixed with whitish and some fuscous; antennae ochreous white, pectus ochreous white, purplish piuk in front; abdomen ochreousi white. Fore win^ purplish pink mixed with whitish, the costa irrorated with olive scales ; antemedial line whitish, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then erect, dark brown band before it from costa to median nervure and by a wedge-shaped olive patch in submedian interspace ; an indistinct fine brownish medial line, oblique from costa to upper angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; a whitish postmedial line, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, a similar subterminal line less incurved. Fig. 106.—Diparopsis castanea, (^. \. to costa, with blackish suffusion between them from vein 3 to inner margin ; cilia pale olive mixed with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous tinged with pinkish on terminal area; cilia yellowish white; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with rufous. g . Fore wing pinker and less purple, the costal area not irrorated with olive, no band before costal half of antemedial line and the patch below the cell paler, the area between postmedial and sub- terminal lines on inner area and the cilia pale olive. IJab. Uganda (H. H. King), 1 $ ; Lorenzo MAKatJEz, Beira (Johnson), 1 J , 1 ?, Delagoa Bay {Mrs. Monteiro), type f $ in Coll. Druce. Exp. 30 millim. Larva. Destructive to cotton. Genus OROPLEXIA, nov. Type, 0. decorata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the second joint reaching about to vertex of head and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male cihated ; thorax clothed with long hair mixed with a few hair-like scales and witliout distinct crests; pectus clothed with long hair ; ti
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