. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 428 NocTtriD^. claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former with black centre and pinkish annulus, round, the latter with blue-black centre, constricted at middle and with blackish streaks beyond it in the interspaces; an indistinct sinuous medial line; postmedial line indistinctly double, filled in with pinkish and defined by pinkish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subtermi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 428 NocTtriD^. claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former with black centre and pinkish annulus, round, the latter with blue-black centre, constricted at middle and with blackish streaks beyond it in the interspaces; an indistinct sinuous medial line; postmedial line indistinctly double, filled in with pinkish and defined by pinkish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line pink defined by brown on inner side, somewhat irregularly dentate, interrupted ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, slight curved postmedial line and fine dark terminal line; cilia chequered white and brownish; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, and curved postmedial line. Hah. Transvaal, White R. (CooJce), 1 S; Zultjlastd, Lr. Tugela R. (Reynolds), 1 c?; Natal, Durban {Boivher), 1 J; Cape Colony, Knysna. Exji. 32 millim. Sect. III. Antennae of male ciliated. 32G6, Hypoplexia externa. Hadena externa, Wlk. xi. 756 (1857). (S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; tegulse pale at base and with black medial line ; patagia edged with black ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen oehreous sufi'used with rufous, the basal crest black at tip. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double black stride from costa; a black streak in submedian fold from base to the antemedial line, which is oblique, double at costa and angled inwards in submedian fold and on vein 1;. Pig. 74.—Hypoplexia externa, ^. j-. claviform greyish defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform grey-white defined by black and with some rufous and fuscous irro
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