. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 374 NOCTTJID^, brown, angled outwards below costa, tben waved, some brown sufFasion before it on inner area with two blackish marks on it; medial area suffused with purplish grey and with blackish beyond the cell; reniform represented by a slight black lunule ; a blackish medial line, oblique to upper extremity of reniform, strongly excurved beyond the cell and incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial. Fig. 116.—Frotarache eulcpidea, J. |-. line double, black filled in with white and some pinkish, slightly bent outwards below costa
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 374 NOCTTJID^, brown, angled outwards below costa, tben waved, some brown sufFasion before it on inner area with two blackish marks on it; medial area suffused with purplish grey and with blackish beyond the cell; reniform represented by a slight black lunule ; a blackish medial line, oblique to upper extremity of reniform, strongly excurved beyond the cell and incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial. Fig. 116.—Frotarache eulcpidea, J. |-. line double, black filled in with white and some pinkish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by red-brown suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at discal fold, incurved below vein 3 and bent outwards to tornus, the area beyond it irrorated with grey ; a terminal series of slight black striae; cilia brownish and white. Hijid wing reddish brown ; cilia yellowish white mixed with brown; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal bar. Hah. CErLON, Puttalam {Pole), 1 c?, 2 $ type. Ex]i. 22millim. 5570. Protarache melaphora, n. sp. (Plate CLX. fig, 2.) Tarache euhfidea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 389 (part.). 5. Head and thorax white tinged with rufous; abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous brown. Eore wing whitish suffused with rufouB ; a diffused patch of raised black scales in and below the cell before the very indistinct sinuous whitish antemedial line ; medial area leaden grey with a blackish tinge beyond the cell; postmedial line indistinct, double filled in with whitish, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by rufous suffusion, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it irrorated with grey ; a terminal series of slight black striae ; cilia white and grey with a slight dark line at middle. Hind wing red
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