. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 646 KOCTUlDiE. lo"-s iiToratcd with brown ; abdomen white dorsallj- suffused with brown. I'ore wing yellow suti'used in parts with red-brown especially on medial area and sparsely irrorated with black, tlio inner halt' of ante- and postuiedial areas greyish ; antemedial liiio indistinct, broAvnish, obliquely excurved ; postmedial line brownish, oblique from costa to vein 6, obliquely incurved below vein 4; an indistinct brownish subterminal line with slight white and black marks on its outer edge, excurved belo
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 646 KOCTUlDiE. lo"-s iiToratcd with brown ; abdomen white dorsallj- suffused with brown. I'ore wing yellow suti'used in parts with red-brown especially on medial area and sparsely irrorated with black, tlio inner halt' of ante- and postuiedial areas greyish ; antemedial liiio indistinct, broAvnish, obliquely excurved ; postmedial line brownish, oblique from costa to vein 6, obliquely incurved below vein 4; an indistinct brownish subterminal line with slight white and black marks on its outer edge, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing scmihyaline, whitish, the veins of terminal area and the termen tinged with yellow-brown. Ilab. JjKCHUANALAND, L. N'Gami {F. Lngard), 1 cJ , 1 § . Exj^. (S 24, $ 28 millim. Type f in Mus. Stockholm. Genus PTEROGONIA. Tyjie. Plerogonia, Svvinli. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 152 Crasijediiyonia, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 117 (1893) nuhes. Proboscis fully deTcloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, ihe 3rd long and moderately scaled; frons smooth witli largo pointed tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; anteniuv of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with slight i-idge-like dorsal crest; tibi;t moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rougli Lair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex sliglitly produced and acute ; the termen typically slightly crenulate to vein 3, then obliquely curved, the inner margin highly arched ; the cell broad at extremity ; veins 3 and 5 I'rom near angle of cell; the discocellnlars straight; vein 6 from angle of cell; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 I'rom upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to towards extremitj. Sect. T. (Craspcdnffonia.) Fore wing with the termen strongly excised below a
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