. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 362 NOCTUID^. Sect. 1. Mid and bind tibiie of male fringed with long hair on upper side ; abdomen with tufts of long liair from base. A. Hind wing of male clothed with rufous scales to near termen on underside. 3181. Oligia hypothermes, n. sp. S . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with dark brown ; mid and hind tibiae with fiery red fringes of hair, the abdominal tufts dark brown. Fore wing rufous suffused and irrorated with dark brown leaving a paler patch beyond postmedial line on inner area; subbasal li
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 362 NOCTUID^. Sect. 1. Mid and bind tibiie of male fringed with long hair on upper side ; abdomen with tufts of long liair from base. A. Hind wing of male clothed with rufous scales to near termen on underside. 3181. Oligia hypothermes, n. sp. S . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with dark brown ; mid and hind tibiae with fiery red fringes of hair, the abdominal tufts dark brown. Fore wing rufous suffused and irrorated with dark brown leaving a paler patch beyond postmedial line on inner area; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, angled inwards in cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial liae indistinctly double, waved, excurved below cell ; claviform small, faintly defined by black; orbicular small, defined by black, round ; reniform incompletely defined by black and with whitish bar on outer edge, angled inwards on median nervure ; a slight waved black medial line ; postmedial line slightly defined by rufous on outer side, somewhat bent outwards below costa, then /'^^ Fig. 60— Oligia hypothermes, c? • \- waved, incurved below vein 7, then oblique to vein 4 near sub- terminal line, then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds; a terminal scries of small black lunules ; cilia rufous mixed with dark brown. Hind wing rufous ; the underside clothed with fiery red hair to near termen. 5 . Fore wing darker brown to postmedial line ; hind wing rufous tinged with brown; the underside pale tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Gold Coast, Aburi, Akropong Mts. {Carter), 1 J , 1 $ type. Eci'p. 26 millim. B. Hind wing of male on underside less strongly clothed with pinkish scales to postmedial line, 3182. Oligia melanodonta, n. sp. S. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark bro
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