. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 178 NOCTPID^, d. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown and a few black scales; palpi blackish at sides except at extremitj-; tegulse with dark medial line ; tarsi black, ringed with white ;. Fig. (50.â spinifera, J. ]-. abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Pore wing pale ochreoiis with a violaceous tinge and slight fuscous suffusion, especially on costal area; the veins slightlj' streaked with fuscous ⢠an indistinct double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ⢠the antemedial line represented
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 178 NOCTPID^, d. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown and a few black scales; palpi blackish at sides except at extremitj-; tegulse with dark medial line ; tarsi black, ringed with white ;. Fig. (50.â spinifera, J. ]-. abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous. Pore wing pale ochreoiis with a violaceous tinge and slight fuscous suffusion, especially on costal area; the veins slightlj' streaked with fuscous ⢠an indistinct double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ⢠the antemedial line represented by oblique double stria? from eosta and a slightly curved line from median nervurc to vein 1 : the claviform very elongate lanceolate, strongly defined by black and filled in by dark brown ; the orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former elliptical and with its outer edge produced to a point, often open above, the latter often angled inwards on median nervure, a black fascia between them in cell and slight streaks from outer edge of reniform ; the postmedial line hardly traceable, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the subterminal line pale, dentate to termen on veins 7, 4, 3, with dentate black marks on its inner side at middle and the area beyond it blackish except towards apex and tornus ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costal area sufi'used with ochreous, a fine terminal line on costal half. 2 . Usually darker ; hind wing terminal areas tinged with fuscous. Hah. S. Frakce ; Spain ; Italy ; type t 2 Jiochue in Coll. Oberthur; (Barl-er), 1 $ ; British East Africa, Athi-ya-}ilawe (Betton), 1 <S , 1 2 , Kikuyu ( Crmvshay), 1 cJ , 2 $ , Eb Urru {Betton), 1 (5 , 1 $ ; MASHOiSTALAND, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 J, 2 $ ; Transvaal {Ross), 1 (S ; ISTatal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 d, 1 $, Durban {Gooch, Leigh), 1^,1$; Basutoland, Maseru (Cratvshay), 2 J ; Cap
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