. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 174 NOCTUID-^. outer side ; a black streak on vein 2 from coll to the postmedial line, •which is double, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, with a rather dentate black mark beyond it below costa; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being paler except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing with. Fig. 55.— Gigantoceras soldiiialis, cJ. }-. the interspaces of basal half pale, the veins and terminal half fuscous;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 174 NOCTUID-^. outer side ; a black streak on vein 2 from coll to the postmedial line, •which is double, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, with a rather dentate black mark beyond it below costa; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being paler except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing with. Fig. 55.— Gigantoceras soldiiialis, cJ. }-. the interspaces of basal half pale, the veins and terminal half fuscous; the underside with dark discoidal lunule showing through to upperside. Ab. 1. Fore wing wdth white fascia on inner margin from base to antemedial line. Hah. Gold Coast, Obuassi (Berr/mann), 1 5 type erinopis ; Gaboon, Ogowe E. (Good), type t d", ? in Coll. Holland. Ex^). cJ 30, ? 34-36 millim. 6407. Gigantoceras rectilinea, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 17.) Head and thorax pale green mixed with brownish grey; palpi with some brown ; froiis with black band above ; tegulse with black band at base ; patagia except at base and metathorax black-brown ; pectus whitish ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen brown, the ventral surface ochreous white with a black line near Fore wintr whitish suffused with pale olive-green and irrorated with silvery and a few black scales; subbasal line black, slightly angled outwards below costa and ending at vein 1; antemedial line double, formed of raised black scales, almost straight, some brownish before it; reniform hardly traceable, elliptical with a bar of raised black scales in centre ; a blackish striga from middle of costa and diffused spot on vein 1 ; postmedial line with double dark striae from costa, then almost obsolete, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved and with black points beyond it on the veins, strongly angled inwards below vein 3, then oblique to inner margin ; apical area red-brown defined by
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