. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 349 round end of cell; postmedial line double, minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line faint, whitish, minutely waved, defined on inner side by cupreous brown spots except towards costa; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black ; a terminal series of small brown lunules ; cilia 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 spo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 349 round end of cell; postmedial line double, minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line faint, whitish, minutely waved, defined on inner side by cupreous brown spots except towards costa; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black ; a terminal series of small brown lunules ; cilia 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, Pak-fak {Pratt), 2 S type Ex}!, 40 millim. 6659. Gadirtha elongata. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 21,) Plotheia elongata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 451 (1897). 5 . Head and thorax oi-hreous mixed with brown; tegulse and patagia olive-green, the former tipped with ochreons and brown ; abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous, the fore tibiae 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, dotible, waved; a tuft of rnfous scales in middle of cell and a large discoidal annuhis slightly defined by I'ufotis and Avith 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 with 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 waved terminal red-brown line; cilia ochreous mixed with f
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