. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 82 NOcrijjD^.. of cell to diseocellulars ; postniedial line red-bro-wi), arising: at vein 6, indistinct and erect to vein 4, then with ao-gregated black scales on it and very oblique to inner margin near base; sub- terminal line black, strongly dentate, arising from apex, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and ending on termen at vein 1 ; cilia white with diffused black-brown streaks and oblique black mark at apex. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the cilia with some black at tips except towards apex and tornus; t
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 82 NOcrijjD^.. of cell to diseocellulars ; postniedial line red-bro-wi), arising: at vein 6, indistinct and erect to vein 4, then with ao-gregated black scales on it and very oblique to inner margin near base; sub- terminal line black, strongly dentate, arising from apex, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and ending on termen at vein 1 ; cilia white with diffused black-brown streaks and oblique black mark at apex. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the cilia with some black at tips except towards apex and tornus; the underside white irrorated with brown. llah. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Coolie), 1 J type. 28 millim. 5099. Eublemma fcedosa. Anthophila fcedosa, Giien. Noct. ii. p. 254 (1852). Head and thorax white, the tegulas tinged with yellow, the patagia with pale rufous; palpi and antennte rufous; abdomen white tinged with rufous ; legs mostly rufous. Fore wdng white tinged with rufous, the basal costal area and the cell pure white, the costal edge blackish towards base ; a black-brown streak in basal half of submedian fold ; black points in middle of cell and on. Fig. 38.—EuUemma fcedosa, J. j^. discocellulars with some rufous between them and a black-brown streak from the latter to near termen ; the terminal area rather deeper rufous with very slight white streaks on the veins; a terminal series of red-brown stride with white points between them and an oblique black-brown mark at apex with some white before it on costa; cilia w^hite thickly irrorated with dark brown, the tips rufous with a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing almost pure white with a line blackish terminal line except at apex and tornus ; the underside yellowish w^hite slightly irrorated with brown, the costa tinged with rufous, a terminal series of black points. Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniform grey-white with hardly any rufous tinge and sparsely irrorated with black. Hah. Br, E. Africa, E. Quaso (Betton), 1 c5
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