. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ODONTESTIS.—MACROCHTHONIA. 635 angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing silky ochreous suffused with reddish brown ; cilia whitish at tips; the underside whitish irrorated with —Odontcsds fuscicvna, ^. \. 5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing ranch greyer and with hardly any rufous tinge. Hah. Khodesia, E. Luangwa Distr. (Weave), 1 $ , Petauke (Neave), 1 S, Lusangazi (Neave), 1 cT , 2 5 ; Poettjgijesb E. Africa, Chinde (Neave), 1 <S type. Exjp. 26 millim. *7081. Odontestis mesonephele. (Plate CX
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ODONTESTIS.—MACROCHTHONIA. 635 angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing silky ochreous suffused with reddish brown ; cilia whitish at tips; the underside whitish irrorated with —Odontcsds fuscicvna, ^. \. 5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing ranch greyer and with hardly any rufous tinge. Hah. Khodesia, E. Luangwa Distr. (Weave), 1 $ , Petauke (Neave), 1 S, Lusangazi (Neave), 1 cT , 2 5 ; Poettjgijesb E. Africa, Chinde (Neave), 1 <S type. Exjp. 26 millim. *7081. Odontestis mesonephele. (Plate CXCI. fig. 3.) Arcyothora mesonephele, , A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 431 (1909). 5 . Head and thorax whitish suffused with rufous, the tips of tegulse and base of patagia white; abdomen dorsally brown, ventrally whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish slightly irrorated with red-brown, the medial area and the terminal area except at apex red-brown ; anteraedial line slight, brown, inwardly oblique and minutely waved ; a large patch of bluish white irroration in, beyond, and below end of cell; an oblique waved brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown, very oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and angled outwards at vein 2 and to inner margin ; subterminal line repre- sented by two slight brown marks towards costa and a minutely waved brown line from vein 6 to inner margin; cilia red-brown except at apex. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area whitish ; the underside brownish white. Hah. Congo Free State, Makala Distr. (^Powell-Cotton), type t 5 in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 24 millim. Genus MACROCHTHONIA. Type. il/acroc^i'^oMM, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 599 fc7-vens, Eccopteroma, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 506 (1892) fervens. Proboscis full}' developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; ejes large, round;
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