. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. BORBOTAJSTA. 585 white; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous especially towards extremity, the dorsal crests rufous, the ventral surface thickly irrorated with rufous. Fore wing deep rufous ; a broad irregular white antemedial band, its inner edge waved, its outer augled outwards below costa and submedian fold ; a white point in middle of cell; a large white discoidal lunule, its inner edges angled inwards, two to four white points beyond it, a spot above it on costa and a line from below it to inner margin angle
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. BORBOTAJSTA. 585 white; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous especially towards extremity, the dorsal crests rufous, the ventral surface thickly irrorated with rufous. Fore wing deep rufous ; a broad irregular white antemedial band, its inner edge waved, its outer augled outwards below costa and submedian fold ; a white point in middle of cell; a large white discoidal lunule, its inner edges angled inwards, two to four white points beyond it, a spot above it on costa and a line from below it to inner margin angled inwards in submedian fold, a redder patch beyond it between veins 4 and 2 and an obscure oblique reddish fascia from costa just before apex ;. Fig. 144.—Borbotana nivifascia, c^. \. a terminal series of faint brown lunules. Hind wing pale rufous, the basal and costal areas pale; the underside whitish irrorated with rufous, the costal and terminal areas rufous irrorated with white, a rufous discoidal lunule and crenulate postmedial line. JJab. Sumatra ; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 d', 1 § typo; Celebes. Ea-j?. 30 millim. Subsp. 1. Rather darker; fore wing with the line from below discoidal lunule expanding into a patch from submedian fold to inner margin. Bab. SiKHiir, 1800' (Dudgeon), 1 $ . Exj^. 28 millim. *3454. Borbotana cebeae. (Plate CXXI. fig. 19.) Borbotana kebeis, , Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 207 (). (S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellowish white ; palpi with the extremity of 2nd joint white, the 3rd joint white at base in front; lower part of frons white; autennse ringed with white; pectus and legs rufous, the former white at base ; abdomen yellowish white, the crests, anal tuft, and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing deep rufous slightly mixed with yellowish; a yellow point defined hj black at base of cell; a silvery white antemedial band defined at sides by black lines, its outer edge slightly angled outwards below costa and s
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