. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. OLIGTA. 363 dark brown, Fore wing rufous suffused with dark brown and irrorated with black; subbasal line represented by double bkick strife from costa and cell ; antemedial line double tilled in with greyish, slightly angled outwards below costa, then waved and rather oblique ; claviform small, slightly detined by black ; orbicular small, indistinct, with greyish annulus defined by black, round; reniform with white annulus slightly defined by brown, open below and somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; an
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. OLIGTA. 363 dark brown, Fore wing rufous suffused with dark brown and irrorated with black; subbasal line represented by double bkick strife from costa and cell ; antemedial line double tilled in with greyish, slightly angled outwards below costa, then waved and rather oblique ; claviform small, slightly detined by black ; orbicular small, indistinct, with greyish annulus defined by black, round; reniform with white annulus slightly defined by brown, open below and somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa; postmedial line indistinct,. Fig. 61.— Oligia inelanodonta, (j". \. pale, waved, defined on inner side by a dark patch on costal area and slight dentate marks at middle, interrupted at veins 5 and 2 by diffused wedge-shaped black-brown patches from termen to postmedial line; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia rufous and dark brown intersected by whitish at the veins. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish suffused with pinkish scales to postmedial line, a blackish discoidal spot, curved postmedial line beut inwards at vein 2, and subterminal band diffused to termen from apex to vein 2. Hah. NiGERrA, Old Calabar {Crompton\ 2 S type. Exp. 32 millim. Sect. II. Tibia; and tarsi of male normal. A. Fore wing of male with fan of large scales in cell on under- side. a. F(jre wing with the orbicular and reniform confluent on median nervure ftyoijhora. h. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not confluent on median nervure nadgani. 3183. Oligia ptyophora, n. sp. Head and thorax greyish mixed with brown and black; tarsi black ringed with grey ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, the crests bla
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