. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 242 NOCTTJIDiE, ochreous brown. Fore wing white mixed with red-brown and fuscous ; subbasal line slight, blackish, sinuous, from costa to sub- median fold; antemedial line indistinct, dark slightly defined on inner side by white, sinuous, sometimes produced and somewhat bifid in cell; two black discoidal points and a small spot above end of cell; a large whitish spot defined by black below end of cell, its outer edge excised; the veins beyond the cell with slight dark streaks ; postmedial line black slightly defined on oute
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 242 NOCTTJIDiE, ochreous brown. Fore wing white mixed with red-brown and fuscous ; subbasal line slight, blackish, sinuous, from costa to sub- median fold; antemedial line indistinct, dark slightly defined on inner side by white, sinuous, sometimes produced and somewhat bifid in cell; two black discoidal points and a small spot above end of cell; a large whitish spot defined by black below end of cell, its outer edge excised; the veins beyond the cell with slight dark streaks ; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by white, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 4, then inwardly. Fig. 27.â Tachosa acronyctoides, S ⢠}â oblique ; subtermiual line white, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 7; the terminal area with slight black streaks in the interspaces ; cilia fuscous intersected with whitish. Hind wing reddish brown, the terminal area tinged with fuscous; the under- side brownish ochreous with the terminal area fuscous. Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Olokemiji {Dudgeon), 1 J, 2 5 , Ilesha {Humfrey), 1 $ ; Congo (Marsden), 1 c? type. Rvj^. 42-46 millim. Genus LOPHOTIDIA, nov. Type, L. trisema. Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaeliing to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect; frons with transverse ridge not clothed with scales, a corneous plate below it and flattened tuft of scales above; eyes large, round ; antennte of male with fascicles of cilia; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiEe moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibiag slightly spined at extremity, the hind tibiae spined ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 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 tlie cell more than half the length of wing; veins 3, 4
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