. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SCOLIACMA. 461 costal nervure curved downwards, sinuous and approximated to the median nervure. d â Metathorax and abdomen blacker brown ; fore wing strongly. Fig. 85.âScoliacma brunnea, cJ, 5- !⢠suffused with purple ; hind wing with the inner area slightly tinned with purple; underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal areas suffused with purple ; hind wing tinged with purple. Br. N. GurifEA, Kumusi R. (Meek), type t d, $ brunnea in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa, type f $ hades in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 1
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SCOLIACMA. 461 costal nervure curved downwards, sinuous and approximated to the median nervure. d â Metathorax and abdomen blacker brown ; fore wing strongly. Fig. 85.âScoliacma brunnea, cJ, 5- !⢠suffused with purple ; hind wing with the inner area slightly tinned with purple; underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal areas suffused with purple ; hind wing tinged with purple. Br. N. GurifEA, Kumusi R. (Meek), type t d, $ brunnea in Coll. Rothschild; Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa, type f $ hades in Coll. Bethune-Baker. 187 a. Scoliacma fuscofascia. (Plate XXV. fig. 21.) Nishada fuscofascia, Kotlis. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 223 (1913). $ . Head and tegulse orange-yellow, the latter with black bars at middle; antenn;e brown ; palpi reddish brown at tips; thorax red-brown with a pair of orange-yellow patches on prothorax and a patch on metathorax; pectus and legs orange-yellow, the tibiae and tarsi suffused with brown ; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral surface orange-yellow. Fore wing pale red-brown; some orange- yellow at base; a darker red-brown shade at end of cell from costa to inner margin and the termen rather darker red-brown. Hind wing white tinged with rjd-brown, the termen suffused with red- brown expanding irregularly below vein 2. Underside of fore wing whitish suffused with red-brown ; hind wing with the costal area suffused witli red-brown. 11,ih. Dutch X. Guinea, Mt. Goliath (Meek), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild, Oetakwa II., Snow Mts. (Meek), 1 $'. Krj>. 2s millim. *188a. Scoliacma xuthopis. (Plate XXV. fig. 22.) Scoliacma a uthopis, Turner, ined. 2 â Pale fulvous brown. Fore wing with a short recurrent vein from vein 2 near its base, the upper angle of cell much produced ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble th
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