. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 264 NOCTUlDiE, streak at vein 4, Hind wing- yellowish wliite, the apex faintly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous. 5 . Hind wing wholly tinged with rufous. Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (il/ars^a?Z, Dohhie),^ (S ,1 $ type: Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 $ , Piet Retief (Craivskay), 1 d ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), 2 c?, Durban (BoivTcer), 2 c?; Cape Colony, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 5 . Exp. 28-32 millim. Genus RAMESODES, nov. Type, B. divisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 264 NOCTUlDiE, streak at vein 4, Hind wing- yellowish wliite, the apex faintly tinged with brown; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous. 5 . Hind wing wholly tinged with rufous. Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (il/ars^a?Z, Dohhie),^ (S ,1 $ type: Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 $ , Piet Retief (Craivskay), 1 d ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), 2 c?, Durban (BoivTcer), 2 c?; Cape Colony, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 5 . Exp. 28-32 millim. Genus RAMESODES, nov. Type, B. divisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, I'ound; thorax smoothly clothed Avitb hair and scales, the prothorax with slight spreading crest; tibiaj smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. .Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and slightly crenulate; reins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 fi-ora cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- cellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennse of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apox serrate, of female with short branches. 4652. Eamesodes divisa. Charidea divisa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 292 (1902). S . Head and thorax black-brown ; antennse and base of tegul'B reddish brown ; abdomen ochreous white at base, fuscous brown at extremity. Fore wing black-brown slightly irrorated with white scales, a broad ochreous fascia tinged with rufous above below costa from base through the cell to termen above vein o, defined below by a slight black streak above median nervure and vein 4 with fine white streak above it, the veins on the ochreous area. Fig. 109.—Eamesodes divisa, J. {. brownish, a fine whitish streak below vein 6, the inner margin and
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