. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 174 , outer side ; a black streak on vein 2 from cell to the postmedial line, which is double, minutelj' dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, with a rather dentate black mark beyond it below costa; subterminal line onlj- defined by the area beyond it being jialer except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of slight dark lanules. Hind wing with. Fig. 55.— Giganioccras sohfUkdis, (^. \. the interspaces of basal half pale, the veins and terminal half f


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 174 , outer side ; a black streak on vein 2 from cell to the postmedial line, which is double, minutelj' dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, with a rather dentate black mark beyond it below costa; subterminal line onlj- defined by the area beyond it being jialer except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of slight dark lanules. Hind wing with. Fig. 55.— Giganioccras sohfUkdis, (^. \. the interspaces of basal half pale, the veins and terminal half f ascous; the underside with dark discoidal lunule showing through lo upperside. Ab. 1. Fore wing with white fascia on inner margin from base to antetnedial line. Ilab. Gold Coast, Obuassi (Berr/maim), 1 5 ^yP^ crinopis; Gaboon, Ogowe li. (6roofZ), type t c?, $ iu Coll. Holland. Exj). 6 30, $ 34-36 millira. 6407. Gigantoceras rectilinea, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig, 17.) Head and thorax pale green mixed with brownish grey; palpi with soaie brown ; frons with black band above ; tegiilas with black band at base ; patagia except at base and metathorax black-brown ; pectus whitish ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen brown, the ventral surface ochreons white with a black line near extremity. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale olive-green and irrorated with silvery and a few black scales; subbasal line black, slightly angled outwards below costa and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line double, formed of raised black scales, almost straight, some brownish before it; reniform hardly traceable, elliptical with a bar of raised black scales in centre ; a blackish striga from middle of costa and diffused spot on vein 1 ; postmedial line with double dark striae from costa, then almost obsolete, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and with black points beyond it on the veins, strongly angled inwards below vein 3, then obli(]ue to inner margin ; apical area red-brown defin


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