. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 295 Sect. II. Antennre of male with verj long bristles and cilia with slight tufts of sciiles at the joints. 3094. Perigea semiiim"brosa. Hadena semiumbrosa, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 317, f. 230 (1891). cT . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and some black ; tegulffi with ill-defined black lines at middle and near tips ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen dorsally fuscous, ventrally ochreous suffused Avith red-brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous irrorated with deep purple-red and dark brown, the basal


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 295 Sect. II. Antennre of male with verj long bristles and cilia with slight tufts of sciiles at the joints. 3094. Perigea semiiim"brosa. Hadena semiumbrosa, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 317, f. 230 (1891). cT . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and some black ; tegulffi with ill-defined black lines at middle and near tips ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen dorsally fuscous, ventrally ochreous suffused Avith red-brown. Fore wing greyish ochreous irrorated with deep purple-red and dark brown, the basal half suffused with brown leaving the inner area before the antemedial line mostly ochreous ; subbasal line double filled in with ochreous, waved, from costa to submedian fold, with some purple-red on its outer edge ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique, angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform indistinct, defined by purple-red ; orbicular with ochreous centre and whitish annulus defined by black at sides, rather quadrate ; reniform with ochreous centre and undefined whitish annulus, constricted at middle and extending to well below cell; an indistinct medial line oblique. Fig. 50.—Perigea semiumhrosa, r^. \. from costa to median nervure, then waved; postmedial line indistinctly- double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, some minute dark streaks beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish defined on inner side by small dentate blackish marks below veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 and with black marks beyond it at apex and middle, minutely waved and incurved at discal and submedian folds; a terminal series of slight black lunules; cilia greyish mixed with red-brown. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal inner area pale with an ochreous tinge ; cilia ochreous; the underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spo


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