. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 'A. veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; G from upper angle; 0 from 10 aiiastoiiiosiug with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from cell. Hiiul wing with veius li, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocel- lulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base ouly. Sect. I. Ant.'nnte of male bipectinate with siiort brandies. 3908. Ampliidrina pexicera, n. sp. c3", Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed Avith some gro)-; palpi dark brown, pale at ti])s; tarsi fuscous wit
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 'A. veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; G from upper angle; 0 from 10 aiiastoiiiosiug with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from cell. Hiiul wing with veius li, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocel- lulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base ouly. Sect. I. Ant.'nnte of male bipectinate with siiort brandies. 3908. Ampliidrina pexicera, n. sp. c3", Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed Avith some gro)-; palpi dark brown, pale at ti])s; tarsi fuscous with pale riu^s ; .•iljiloraeu ffrey mixed with brown. Fore win<^ jjrey-wliite .suffused in ])art8 with pale rufous and irrorated with fuscous brown ; sub- basal line black defined by whitish on outer side, waved, from to submedian fold; anteraedial line double Hlled in witli whitish, oblique, Avaved ; a slight dark mark at middle of submedian fold ;. JTig. 89.—Ampliidrina jMxicera, (^. \. orbicular a small rather elongate black-brown spot; reniform small, defined by black, more strongly on inuer side; postmedial line double filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, incurved below vein 4 and slightly excurved above inuer margin, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by small dentate brown marks from below costa to vein 2, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black luuules. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous white; the underside white tinged with ochreous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated Avith brown, a small dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. llah. Cape Colony, Hoot Bay i^W. L. Sclater), 1 d type. Kq>. 3(5 millira. Sect. II. Anteunic of male ciliated. A. Fore wing with the reniform very large and stron;;ly angled ;.rds on merlian uervnre Piid'Triifif. B. Fore wing with the renif
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