. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3S6 KOCTUID^. band followed by a maculate fiiscons line; a faint dentate brownish siibterminal line ; a series of blackish points before termcn ; cilia. Fig. 83.—Homcea hansalt, J' • grey-brown, white at tips ; the underside grey tinged and irrorated with brown, a diffused brown medial line, slight postmedial line, and subterminal shade. Hah. W. Afeica, Bogos; Bk. E. Africa, jSTeugia (CrmvsJiai/), ] 2; Transvaal, Barberton (Coolie),! J; jS^atal, Durban (G^ooc/i, Leigh), 1 (5', 3 $ ; Cape Colony, Poiidoland {Sivimiey), 1 $ , T
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 3S6 KOCTUID^. band followed by a maculate fiiscons line; a faint dentate brownish siibterminal line ; a series of blackish points before termcn ; cilia. Fig. 83.—Homcea hansalt, J' • grey-brown, white at tips ; the underside grey tinged and irrorated with brown, a diffused brown medial line, slight postmedial line, and subterminal shade. Hah. W. Afeica, Bogos; Bk. E. Africa, jSTeugia (CrmvsJiai/), ] 2; Transvaal, Barberton (Coolie),! J; jS^atal, Durban (G^ooc/i, Leigh), 1 (5', 3 $ ; Cape Colony, Poiidoland {Sivimiey), 1 $ , Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 J . Exj). 36 millira. Genus OPOROPHYLLA, nov. Type, 0. miulata. Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and very broadly sealed, the 3rd minute, porrect; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennje of male simple and somewhat laminate; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, and without crests; fore tibite slightly fringed with hair; all the tibite strongly spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair, especially towards base, but without crests. Fore wing with tlio costa highly arched towards apex which is produced to a long blunt point, the termen very obliquely curbed continuously with the highly arched inner margin, the basal half of inner area clothed with rough hair; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; f) from upper an»le ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a rather long areoie; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 6 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from ujjper ano-le; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 7496. Oporophylla ustulata. Fhyllodes ustulata, Westw. Cab. Or, Ent. p. 57, pi. 28. f. 1 (1848); Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 657. Phyllodes despicillator, Quen. Noct. iii. p. 122 (1852). Head and thorax dark brown with a slight greyish gloss; palpi, excep
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