. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 142 NOCTUIDJE. â white, the veins, inner and terminal areas suffused with brown ; a discoidal lunule and postmedial line excurved at discal fold ; a fine dark terminal line slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the discoidal lunule and postmedial line strong, a diftused subterminal band. Hah. PoRXUGTJESE E. Africa ; Cape Colony, Grahamstowu, 1 J , â Capetown, 1 6 â Exp. 36-40 millim. Genus ANDE
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 142 NOCTUIDJE. â white, the veins, inner and terminal areas suffused with brown ; a discoidal lunule and postmedial line excurved at discal fold ; a fine dark terminal line slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the discoidal lunule and postmedial line strong, a diftused subterminal band. Hah. PoRXUGTJESE E. Africa ; Cape Colony, Grahamstowu, 1 J , â Capetown, 1 6 â Exp. 36-40 millim. Genus ANDESIA, nov. Type, A. a'uistis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the :2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male almost simple, somewhat laminate ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the frons and vertex of head with tufts of hair, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; pectus and tibiae clothed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing short, the costa very slightly concave, the ternien obliquely curved, the inner margin slightly lobed near base; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (5 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obso- lescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing Avith the cell near base only. 2249, Aiidesia cenistis, n. sp. Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulse with black line near tips; tatsi ringed with black; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous and slightly tinged with purplish, the medial and terminal areas sufi^used with blackish ; a difi'iised black streak below base of cell, a slight subbasal streak in cell and some scales on vein 1 ; subbasal line rep
Size: 2836px × 881px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorhamp, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmoths
