. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 388 - NOCTUID^. brown ; cilia white, yellowish at base and with brown line near base from apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with the patch of androconia in cell white, yellow at extremity; hind wing with the costa tinged with yellow towards base, the streak of scales below end of cell of male brown, a brown postmedial bar from costa to vein 6, some brown irroration at apex and some slight black points on apical part of termen. Hah. Br. E. Afbica, Kikuyu (Ct-cnvshay), 1 J ; Natal (Oueinzius, Leigh), 2 c?, 1 $ type; C. Col
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 388 - NOCTUID^. brown ; cilia white, yellowish at base and with brown line near base from apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with the patch of androconia in cell white, yellow at extremity; hind wing with the costa tinged with yellow towards base, the streak of scales below end of cell of male brown, a brown postmedial bar from costa to vein 6, some brown irroration at apex and some slight black points on apical part of termen. Hah. Br. E. Afbica, Kikuyu (Ct-cnvshay), 1 J ; Natal (Oueinzius, Leigh), 2 c?, 1 $ type; C. Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 2 $ . Ex^. 34-86 millim. , B. Abdomen of male without lateral tufts of bair ; fore wing with small" patcb of androconia in cell on underside; bind wing without streak of androconia below cell. 4052. Ariathisa semiluna. Nifocris semiluna, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xis. ined. pi. iv. f. 13. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey; palpi black-brown, white at tips; tegulse with black-brown band at base; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, bent inwards to costa, then sinuous, exeurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform black-brown slightly defined by whitish, their lower extremities connected by a fascia, forming a U-shaped mark ; traces of a dark medial shade; postmedial line slight, black,. Fig. 105.—Ariathisa semihina, (^. \. interrupted, with small black spot at costa, oblique from costa to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line in- distinct, pale, defined on inner side by slight dentate dark marks from below costa to vein 4, angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at middle ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing greyish tinged with ochreous, the termen rather darker from apex to submedian fold; cilia ochreous white. Unde
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