. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. sEcusio. 491 Sect. II. (Secusio). Antenna) of female ciliated. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish or yeUowish mania. B. Fore wing grey-brown, with postmedial series of whitish spots strigata. 2097. Secusio mania. (Plate L. fig. 15.) Secui^io mcmia, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 672 (1888); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. Head orange, the palpi except at base, lower part of frons, and a spot on vertex black ; antennae black, with some white on shaft above; tegiilse
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. sEcusio. 491 Sect. II. (Secusio). Antenna) of female ciliated. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish or yeUowish mania. B. Fore wing grey-brown, with postmedial series of whitish spots strigata. 2097. Secusio mania. (Plate L. fig. 15.) Secui^io mcmia, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 672 (1888); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. Head orange, the palpi except at base, lower part of frons, and a spot on vertex black ; antennae black, with some white on shaft above; tegiilse orange with black spots; thorax whitish, with black streaks on patagia and vertex, the metathorax with some orange ; pectus orange, with black spots; legs whitish striped with black; abdomen orange-yellow above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black points, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish or yellowish; the veins of basal half whitish defined by brown streaks, of terminal half brown; a more or less developed diffused medial brown band from costa to below cell; the terminal area suffused with brown broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus ; cilia blackish, pale at tips. Hind wing orauge-yellow, sometimes with deeper terminal band, or with slight dark streaks on extremities of veins towards apex. Ab. I. Fore wing fuscous brown, with traces of pale oblique postmedial band. Hab. Delagoa Bat (Mrs. Monteiro, KenricJc), 2 cJ, 3 5 . ), 44 millim. 2098. Secusio strigata. Secusio strigata, Wlk. ii. 559 (1854); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 50; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. Nyctemera hymencea, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 360 (1871); Van der Decken, Reisen, iii. (2) p. 377, pi 16. f. 1; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. Secusio parvipuncta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. Tiii. p. 46, pi. 139. f. 6 (1891); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. Head orange, the palpi except at base, antennse, and spots on frons and vertex black ; tegulae orange with black spots; patagia and thorax black-brown wi
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