. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. Ill' NOCTUIDJE. Genus ETHIOTERPIA, nov. Type, E. neavi. Proboscis fully di>velopecl; palpi obliquely upturned, hardly reaching middle of from, wliicli has a liri^e corneous prominence with raised edges ; eyes large, round; antennno of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibi;B moderately fringed with hair; abdomen clothed with woolly hair but without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and n
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. Ill' NOCTUIDJE. Genus ETHIOTERPIA, nov. Type, E. neavi. Proboscis fully di>velopecl; palpi obliquely upturned, hardly reaching middle of from, wliicli has a liri^e corneous prominence with raised edges ; eyes large, round; antennno of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibi;B moderately fringed with hair; abdomen clothed with woolly hair but without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 0 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins .3, 4 strongly stalked; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4443. Ethioterpia neavi, n. sp. J . Head and thorax creamj' white; palpi black with white bands at mid He and extremity; frons with lateral black marks; antonniB blackish ; thorax with some black scales mixed and with black bands behind teguLe and on metathorax ; tibioe and tarsi banded with black; abdomen blackish, the extremity and ventral surface white. Fore wing cream)' white; some black marks at base of. Fig. 31.—Ethioterpia neavi, ^. inner area; a subbasal black striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish, obsolescent towards costa, oblique to submedian fold where there is a slight streak representing the claviform, then slightly sinuous ; an oblique sinuous medial black line, strongly excurved below the cell and with a black striga beyond it from costa; the outer half of medial area almost entirely suffused with fuscous ; reniform a largo irregular white mark defined by black expanding into a large lobe below costa and into a small lobe on inner side at lower extremity; postmedial line black, slightly sinuous, oblique from costa to discal fold, then incurved, the costa beyond
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