. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 62 AMATID-E. *265 a. Apisa vitrina. Pseudapieonoma vitrina, Obertb, Et. Lep. Comp. iii. p. 95, pi. xi. f. 5 (1909). Hind wing of male aborted and minute. c?. Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi blackish except at tips; antennae brown; abdomen white with diffused dorsal blackish bands. Fore wing white with reddish brown suffusion on costal area, in cell, and discal fold to beyond middle and on basal inner area, the veins on this brown area streaked. Fig. 13.—Apisa vitrina, <$. \. with black; some blackish on inne
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 62 AMATID-E. *265 a. Apisa vitrina. Pseudapieonoma vitrina, Obertb, Et. Lep. Comp. iii. p. 95, pi. xi. f. 5 (1909). Hind wing of male aborted and minute. c?. Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi blackish except at tips; antennae brown; abdomen white with diffused dorsal blackish bands. Fore wing white with reddish brown suffusion on costal area, in cell, and discal fold to beyond middle and on basal inner area, the veins on this brown area streaked. Fig. 13.—Apisa vitrina, <$. \. with black; some blackish on inner margin near base; a faint diffused obliquely curved brownish subterminal band, diffused to termen between veins 4, 3. Hind wing white with diffused blackish patch at middle of inner area. Hab. Fk. Ccxngo, Abanga R., in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim. *266r/. Apisa sjostedti. (Plate III. fig. 24.) Apisa sjostedti, Aiiriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4. p. 28 (1904). 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; palpi and legs yellow ; antennae with shaft yellow above ; vertex of head, pro- and metathorax with orange patches, shoulders with slight orange spots ; abdomen with dorsal and subdorsal orange spots on 2nd and 3rd segments followed by bands on the next three segments and a large patch on two terminal segments, the ventral surface white slightly tinged with yellow. Fore wing dark brown ; a small hyaline spot below the base of vein 2 with yellow bar from it to below vein 1; a small round hyaline spot in end of cell ; a postmedial yellowish hyaline spot above vein 6 and conjoined hyaline spots between veins 5 and 3. Hind wing dark brown with a minute whitish spot beyond lower angle of cell. Hab. Cameroons, type f § in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 30 millim. 207. Apisa ? abdominalis belongs to the family Zygaenidae. *2GSa. Apisa lamborni. (Plate III. fig. 25.) Apisa lamborni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 18S (1913). c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown, the shaft of antenna1 with
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