. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CRYPSOTIDIA. 247 with the cell more than half the length of wing; veins 4, 5 typically shortly fetalked ; 6 fully developed from lower angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint long, downturned and thickly scaled; hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked, 5 from angle of cell. 7369. Crypsotidia mesosema, n. sp. Hypoglaucith sp., Longstaif, Butterfly Hunting, pi. v. f. 6. c?. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and fuscous; tarsi blackish ringed wit
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CRYPSOTIDIA. 247 with the cell more than half the length of wing; veins 4, 5 typically shortly fetalked ; 6 fully developed from lower angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint long, downturned and thickly scaled; hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked, 5 from angle of cell. 7369. Crypsotidia mesosema, n. sp. Hypoglaucith sp., Longstaif, Butterfly Hunting, pi. v. f. 6. c?. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and fuscous; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey-white suffused with red-brown and irrorated with blackish ; a subbasal black striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by whitish, oblique, sinuous; a blackish mark from middle of. Fig. 30.— Crypsotidia mesoiiema, (^. |. costa and some blackish suffusion in and below end of cell; post- medial line black defined on outer side by whitish, excurved and minutely waved from below costa to vein 4, then retracted to lower angle of cell and again excurved above inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by fuscous, minutely dentate and with dentate black marks before it above and below vein 7; a waved black terminal line defining a series of white points; cilia white at tips. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area brown ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a slight waved postmedial black line from costa to discal fold, subterminal shade except towards tornus, and some black points in submedian fold. Ab. 1. Hind wing tinged with reddish brown. Hab. Sudan, Khartum (Lonr/staff), 2 J type ; Be. E. Afeica, Kilima'njaro (Jackson), 1 cS • 28-30 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and a
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