. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CALLYNA. 359 ciliated ; thorax smoothly clotherl ahnost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiie moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rouijh hair at base but without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the margins subparallel, tiie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and .1 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; U from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of diseocellu
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CALLYNA. 359 ciliated ; thorax smoothly clotherl ahnost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiie moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rouijh hair at base but without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the margins subparallel, tiie apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and .1 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; U from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. ,\ntenna? of male bipectiuate with very short branches dilated at extremity. 4806. Callyna nigerrima. Cailyna nigerrima, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 400 (1902). Head and thorax velvetj'-black; mid tibisB with oraiiu;e patch, the tarsi ringed with grey ; abdomen greyish fuscous. Pore wing uniform velvety black with an antemedial and four postmedial. Fig. 164.— Calh/na nigerrima, (^. \. slight orange points on costa. Hind wing glossy fuscous brown with a greyish tinge; the underside bluish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous, the apical area rather blacker, a faint diffused curved postmedial line. Hah. Be. C. Afrjca, Stevenson Rd. {Dnvar), 1 2 ; Mashonalaxd, Salisburv (Marshall), 3 6,32 type; Zulula^'d, 1 c?. Exy. 38-44 millim. Sect. II. Antennre of male ciliated. A. Abdomen with the terminal segments orange aiderea. B. Abdomen with the terminal segments not orange. a. Fore wing black decora, b. Fore wing purplish brown. ai. Fore wing with white or yellowish apical patch. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial black i^atches on costa. a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate and produced to white points on the veins from vein 4 to inner margin costiplaga. Ifi. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate or produced to white points from vein 4 to inner margin Please no
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