. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SYPIS'OIDES. 249 8054. Sypnoides equatorialis. Sij])na eqiicdorialis, Holl. Psyche, Tii. p. 69 (1894). S â Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the crests dark brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish brown slightly irrorated with black ; a reddish ochreous subbasal bar from costa to median nervure and white bar in submedian interspace ; medial area suffused with bluish white with a conical black-brown patch on it from costa to middle of cell
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SYPIS'OIDES. 249 8054. Sypnoides equatorialis. Sij])na eqiicdorialis, Holl. Psyche, Tii. p. 69 (1894). S â Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the crests dark brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish brown slightly irrorated with black ; a reddish ochreous subbasal bar from costa to median nervure and white bar in submedian interspace ; medial area suffused with bluish white with a conical black-brown patch on it from costa to middle of cell and an oblique band from median nervure to inner mai^gin towards which it expands; traces of a curved waved antemedial brown line on the white area;. Fig. 58.â Sypnoides equatorialis, (j". \. orbicular a minute incomplete black annulus; reniform with reddish brown centre and bluish white annulus, oblique, its outer edge irregular; postmedial line indistinctly double, obliquely down- curved below costa, then slightly waved, som_ewfhat incm-ved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, and obsolete on the white area, a dark brown spot beyond it on costa followed by some pale and dark striae; subterminal line black-brown defined on inner side by reddish ochreous, waved, oblique towards costa and excurved at middle; a series of slight black lunules before termen, the lunule in submedian interspace defined on outer side by white scales ; a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind wing reddish brown; traces of a double medial line filled in with whitish on inner area; an indistinct diffused postmedial line with some dark points on its outer side on inner area; an indistinct dark subterminal line, more distinct and somewhat dentate on inner half; a series of dark points and lunules before termen; a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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