. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 150 NOCTUID^E. costa; the antemedial line double, filled in with oehreous, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, inwards to base in cell and moderately inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; a slight black streak below base of cell: claviform small, slightly defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniforn small, with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former round; a slight oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line defined by oehreous on outer side, minu
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 150 NOCTUID^E. costa; the antemedial line double, filled in with oehreous, angled outwards on subcostal nervure, inwards to base in cell and moderately inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; a slight black streak below base of cell: claviform small, slightly defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniforn small, with fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former round; a slight oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line defined by oehreous on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing yellowish white; the underside with the costal area tinged with oehreous, a post- medial series of points on the veins developed into a waved line towards costa. Hah. Bastjtolaijd, Maseru {Crawshay\ 2 cj', 1 5? Masite, 1 5; Cape Colony, Anushaw {Miss F. Barrett), 2 c?, 1 $ type Exp. 30 millim, 264. Micragrotis axylides, n. sp. Head and thorax oehreous mixed with fuscous; patagia with a purplish tinge; tarsi with black and pale rings ; abdomen oehreous tinged with fuscous brown. Fore wing greyish oehreous suffused with purplish brown; the veins streaked with blackish ; two fine pale streaks in base of cell; the antemedial line double, the inn^r line indistinct, dentate and angled strongly inwards on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1; orbicular and reniform small, with blackish centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former. Fig. 56.—Micragrotis axylides, J. i. round, the cell between them and area above it suftused with fuscous black ; traces of an oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; the postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing yellowish white, the cost
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