. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 428 NOciriDj];. lilies absent; orbicular oblique elliptical, deep red defined by black and \vith slight black striga in centre ; reniform a rather V-shaped lunule, defined by black except above and on upper part of inner side where it is defined by red; a large triangular white patch in, below, and beyond cell, extending below end of cell to submedian fold, its outer edge running obliquely to costa towards apex; a broad terminal white bond with black-irrorated lunulate band on it before termen, with a red patch on it on inner a
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 428 NOciriDj];. lilies absent; orbicular oblique elliptical, deep red defined by black and \vith slight black striga in centre ; reniform a rather V-shaped lunule, defined by black except above and on upper part of inner side where it is defined by red; a large triangular white patch in, below, and beyond cell, extending below end of cell to submedian fold, its outer edge running obliquely to costa towards apex; a broad terminal white bond with black-irrorated lunulate band on it before termen, with a red patch on it on inner area and red patch on inner edge of the white band on costal area ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia black and whitish with slight yellowish line at base. Hind wing orange-yellow with subterminal series of small round black spots interrujited at submedian fold. Underside of fore wing yellow, the reniform and small orbicular black, a curved subterminal series of rather triangular black spots except towards tornus, diffused towards apex; hind wing with black discoidal point. I]ah. Mashonaland (Dohbie), 1 2 type. £'.r_^9. 60 millim. Genus LEUCOVIS. Type. Leucovis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. vii. p. S (1908) alba. Ferimagia. Strand, Deutscb. Ent. Zeit. 19U9, p. 536 alba. Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, short, moderately fringed witli hair below ; frons with large truncate conical prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely^ ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibire moderately fringed with hair, the fore tarsi with tufts of hair on the joints above ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and b 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 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obso- lescent from mid
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