. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 264 NOCTUIDiE. to tornus, the rest of wing fuscous black ; cilia tipped with Avhite below veiu 2. Underside of fore wing deep fuscous ; hind wing. Fig. 36.— CaUopMsmaflavicornis, J. \. fuscous brown irrorated with blue-white except on apical area, the inner area bhie-white. Hah. S. KiGERiA, Akassa (Lugard), 1 (5 type; Up. Congo (WoUaston), 1 $ ; Sudan, White Nile {Dunn), 1 $ . Exj?. 52-56 niillim. Genus EGYBOLIS. Caloptera, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 363 (1845), nee Guer. Dipt. Type. 1830 vaillantina. EgyhoUs, Boisd. Delegorgu
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 264 NOCTUIDiE. to tornus, the rest of wing fuscous black ; cilia tipped with Avhite below veiu 2. Underside of fore wing deep fuscous ; hind wing. Fig. 36.— CaUopMsmaflavicornis, J. \. fuscous brown irrorated with blue-white except on apical area, the inner area bhie-white. Hah. S. KiGERiA, Akassa (Lugard), 1 (5 type; Up. Congo (WoUaston), 1 $ ; Sudan, White Nile {Dunn), 1 $ . Exj?. 52-56 niillim. Genus EGYBOLIS. Caloptera, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 363 (1845), nee Guer. Dipt. Type. 1830 vaillantina. EgyhoUs, Boisd. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 595 (1847). vaillantina. Egybolia, Wlk. ill. 765 (1856) vaillantina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate and thickly sealed; irons smooth with slight tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antenna of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex; thorax thickly clothed with long hair and without crests ; tibia moderately fringed with hair, the fore and hind tibite not spined ; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair on basal segments but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the subbasal band broad and not interrupted vaillantina. B. Fore wing with the subbasal band narrow and interrupted in the cell Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept.
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