. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. EOMBOTELIA. 13 620S. Bombotelia dorsipuncta, n. sp. Peniciilaria viacuhda, Semper, Reise Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 534 (nee Biitl.). Head and thorax deep purple-brown, the teguloe slightly edged with whitish ; pectus white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen rufous with small dorsal white spot on 4th segment, the ventral surface deep purple-brown with small yellow spot at base. Fore wing red-brown mixed with some greyish ochreous and suflused with deep purple x)lum-colour ; some slight black irroration on inner area
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. EOMBOTELIA. 13 620S. Bombotelia dorsipuncta, n. sp. Peniciilaria viacuhda, Semper, Reise Phil., Schmett. ii. p. 534 (nee Biitl.). Head and thorax deep purple-brown, the teguloe slightly edged with whitish ; pectus white, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen rufous with small dorsal white spot on 4th segment, the ventral surface deep purple-brown with small yellow spot at base. Fore wing red-brown mixed with some greyish ochreous and suflused with deep purple x)lum-colour ; some slight black irroration on inner area towards base; antemedial line fine, white, defined on outer side by black and grejish ochreous, oblique from costa to vein 2 below \he cell, then inwardly oblicjue, touching the reniform which is slightly defined by white, strongly constricted at middle and produced at upper extremity, a wliite striga above it from costa ; the medial area with veins 4 to 1 streaked with greyish ochreous ; postmedial line double, greyish ochreous, obliijue from costa to vein G, where it is obtusely angled, then inwardly oblique, sinuous. Fig. 7.—Bonihofcliu dorsipimcta, <5. ?-• and bent outwards to inner margin, the inner line not quite reaching costa and with black marks before it, an oblique black mark from its angle to termen at vein 3 defined above by greyish oclireous and with silvery-blue suff'usion below it; a wedge-shaped chocolate-brown patch from costa before the subterminal line, which is whitish and incurved from costa to termen at vein G, below vein 4 pure white, angled outwards at vein 3 and ending at tornus, the area beyond it black ; a terminal series of minute black lunules sliglitly defined by white from apex to vein 4, a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pure white, the costal and terminal areas purplish brown, a brown discoidal spot, postmedial white striga at inner margin, and white line from vein 3 to termen at vein 1 ; a terminal series of minute dark lunu
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