. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. GADTRTIIl. 349 round cml of cell; postmedial line double, minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then obli(]ue ; subterminal line faint, wbitish, minutely waved, defined on inner side by cupreous brown spota except towards costa; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black; a terminal series of small brown'lunules ; cilia Fig. 12G.— Gadlrtha cuprcscens, cS. \. Hind wing fuscous brown; cilia paler with a blackish mark towards tornus; the underside brownish white, the costal and terminal areas suffuse
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. GADTRTIIl. 349 round cml of cell; postmedial line double, minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then obli(]ue ; subterminal line faint, wbitish, minutely waved, defined on inner side by cupreous brown spota except towards costa; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black; a terminal series of small brown'lunules ; cilia Fig. 12G.— Gadlrtha cuprcscens, cS. \. Hind wing fuscous brown; cilia paler with a blackish mark towards tornus; the underside brownish white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with fuscous, an indistinct dark discoidal spot. Ab. 1. Fore wing with antemedial patch of black suffusion from costa to below cell, a wedge-shaped mark below costa beyond the postmedial line and spot at discal fold. Hub. ]N, Guinea, Fak-fak (I'niU), 2 d' type £',rj>. 40 millim. 6659, Gadirtha elongata. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 21.) Phdheia clovgafa, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 451 (1897). $ . Head and thorax oidireous mixed with brown ; tegulse and patagia olive-green, the former ti])ped with ochreous and brown ; abdomen greyish ochreous sufiused with brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous, the fore tibise fringed with green hair on outer side. Fore wing olive-green irrorated with some white and pale rufous ; subbasal line represented by a brown striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, doixble, waved: a tuft of rufous scales in middle of cell and a large discoidal annulus slightlv defined l)y rufous and with tuft of rufous scales in centre: a blackish striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line black and oblique from costa to vein 7, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4 and Avith tufts of scales on it above and below vein 1, an oblique black streak beyond it below costa and some small black spots on costa towards apex; subterminal line slight, white, curved, with rufous spots on its inner side except towards costa ; a fine wav
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