. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. OMPHALOCEPS. HESPAGABI8TA. 629 oblique yellow band from below costa just beyond middle to above tornus, with rather sinuous edges. Hind ^ving with oblique golden-. Fig. 275.— Om'phalocepsi triangularis, ($. \. yellow triangular patch from basal half of costa to near terraen at vein 2, its costal area whitish. Eah. Cameroons, Ogove R., 2 c?, 1 $ . Exp.^ S 52. 5 56 millim. Genus HESPAGARISTA. Hespagarista, Wlk. i. p. 13 (1854) Type. echione. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, clothed with long hair, the ovA joint short and
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. OMPHALOCEPS. HESPAGABI8TA. 629 oblique yellow band from below costa just beyond middle to above tornus, with rather sinuous edges. Hind ^ving with oblique golden-. Fig. 275.— Om'phalocepsi triangularis, ($. \. yellow triangular patch from basal half of costa to near terraen at vein 2, its costal area whitish. Eah. Cameroons, Ogove R., 2 c?, 1 $ . Exp.^ S 52. 5 56 millim. Genus HESPAGARISTA. Hespagarista, Wlk. i. p. 13 (1854) Type. echione. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, clothed with long hair, the ovA joint short and extending to beyond frons, which has a truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennce nearly simple and strongly dilated towards extremity ; head, thorax, femora, and abdomen clothed with rough hair ; tibia; with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; fi from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obso- lescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. Frons with the truncate prominence large ; abdomen of male with the claspers tufted with very long hair above. A. Thorax orange echione. B. Teguhe and patagia only orange caudata. 170. Hespagarista echione. Agarista echione, Boisd. Voy. Deleg. ii. p. .595 (1847); Angas, Kaffirs Illustrated, pi. 30. f. 10 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 21. Hespagarista echione, \ Roths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 44 (1896). Hespagarista interlecta, Wlk. i. p. 14 (1854). Eusemia novemmaculata, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. 54; id. Nov. Lep. i. p. 56, pi. 9. f. 1 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. pp. 25, 897. Black; 1st and 2nd joints of palpi with white points at extremity; back of head and thorax above orange; tibiae witli white points; abdomen with lateral and sublatoral scries of white points. Fore wing with ochreous point at base ; subbasal points below costa and above vein 1 ; a spot in middle of
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