. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACEIPIA. 591 median nervures and incurved in cell and above vein 1, its outer edge oblique towards costa and excurved beyond the angles of cell and above inner margin. Hind wing reddish brown, the costal area and cilia white; the underside whitish tinged with rufous except on inner area and with numerous lines formed of black- brown striae, a black-brown discoidal spot. Hah. Cape Colony, Knysna {Trimen), type f $ in Coll. Roth- schild. E,vp. 38 millim. 7004. Acripia subolivacea. Acripia siiholivacea, Wlk. xxvii. 9 (1863). I'l
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACEIPIA. 591 median nervures and incurved in cell and above vein 1, its outer edge oblique towards costa and excurved beyond the angles of cell and above inner margin. Hind wing reddish brown, the costal area and cilia white; the underside whitish tinged with rufous except on inner area and with numerous lines formed of black- brown striae, a black-brown discoidal spot. Hah. Cape Colony, Knysna {Trimen), type f $ in Coll. Roth- schild. E,vp. 38 millim. 7004. Acripia subolivacea. Acripia siiholivacea, Wlk. xxvii. 9 (1863). I'lasienis marginca, Feld. Keis. Nov. pi. 111. f. 8 (1874). Head and base of tegulte brown, the rest of thorax and abdomen white mixed with brown. Fore wing white tinged with brown and irrorated and striated with dark brown ; a round black discoidal spot with white point in centre ; traces of a double punctiforin ^<=:^ Fig. 234.—Acripia suhuUvacea, S. \. black line oblique from costa beyond middle to near termen at vein 4, then erect; some subapical black points. Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with brown, a faint dark discoidal point; the underside with very prominent black-brown striiB. Hah. Cape Colony {8ir A. Smith), 1 c?, 1 $ type. Eay. 32 millim. 7005. Acripia leprosa. Plastenis Iciwo&a, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 111. f. 9 (1874). 5 . Head brown mixed with white, the vertex green, the palpi white at base; tegulse, base of patagia, and prothorax fulvous red, the rest of thorax purplish brown, the crest tipped with black ; pectus and legs white irrorated with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing brownish grey suffused in parts with purplish fuscous and sparsely irrorated and striated with black; the basal area fulvous red from costa to vein 1, with a black point at base ; a diffused dark antemedial line, oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; a small grey-brown spot in middle of cell and larger discoidal s
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