. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 500 KOCTUID.'E. the crests darker at tips, the ventral s^irface brownish white, the medial latei-al tufts of male red-hrown. Fore wing silvery-grey slightly iiTorated â with blaok and glossed with golden cupreous, the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below the cell; sub- basal line silvtry slightly defined on each side by red-brown, waved, from costa to vein 1; anteraedial line silvery defined on outer side by chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa and inwards. Kg. 125.âPJujiomeira acuta, ^. \. in cell, t
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 500 KOCTUID.'E. the crests darker at tips, the ventral s^irface brownish white, the medial latei-al tufts of male red-hrown. Fore wing silvery-grey slightly iiTorated â with blaok and glossed with golden cupreous, the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below the cell; sub- basal line silvtry slightly defined on each side by red-brown, waved, from costa to vein 1; anteraedial line silvery defined on outer side by chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa and inwards. Kg. 125.âPJujiomeira acuta, ^. \. in cell, then oblique and slightly sinuous; orbicular with slight pale annulus, oblique, narrow; an oblique silver U-shaped stigma below the cell with spot beyond its lower extremity, some silver between the arms of the stigma; reniform faintly defined by brown, strongly constricted at middle and with silvery striga at lower extremity; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown tilled in with whitish and with silver at inner inargin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and very slightly waved to vein 5 where it is angled inwards, excurved at vein 4 and below subniedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black-brown with a chocolate shade before it fi-om vein 7 to below 5, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, below veins 4 and 3 and above vein 1, a chocolate-brown shade beyond it from costa to vein 4, expanding into a triangular mark at vein 5 ; a fine waved dark terminal line and small spot at base of cilia at vein 4. Hind wing cupreous brown; cilia with a fine white line at base and white tips; the underside greyish suffused and irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, rather diifused }>ostmedial line and subteruiinal shade. Hah. S. NiGEBiA, Lagos (Boac/), 1 2 , Old Calaha^Y (Orompfon), 1 $, Ilesha {Hnmfrey), 1 $ ; Congo {Ourror), 1 $ ty]ie; Abyssinia, AtWa {GerrarcV), 1 <S ; Somaliland, Bulbar {Drake- BrocJcman), 1 9 ; Sokotea, Moukaradi
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