. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 506 AECTIADJi:. 2122. Rhodogastria leucoptera, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 4.) 5 . Head, thorax, and base of abdomen white; palpi crimson with black spots ; antennae blackish, the basal joint crimson and black; frons and vertex of head with black points; tegulfe, shoulders, pro- meso- and metathorax with black points; legs striped crimson and white, fore and mid tibiae striped with fuscous; abdomen dorsally crimson, the ventral surface white, two lateral series of black points ; wings semihyaline white ; fore wing with two black spot
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 506 AECTIADJi:. 2122. Rhodogastria leucoptera, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 4.) 5 . Head, thorax, and base of abdomen white; palpi crimson with black spots ; antennae blackish, the basal joint crimson and black; frons and vertex of head with black points; tegulfe, shoulders, pro- meso- and metathorax with black points; legs striped crimson and white, fore and mid tibiae striped with fuscous; abdomen dorsally crimson, the ventral surface white, two lateral series of black points ; wings semihyaline white ; fore wing with two black spots at base. Hab, Sierra Leone (Mifford), 1 $ type. 56 millim. 2123. Ehodogastria albivitrea, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 19.) d". White; palpi crimson above, banded with black; antennae yellow, the basal joint with crimson and black spots ; tegulae, pa- tagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black points ; coxae at sides and fore and mid femora in front crimson ; abdomen crimson above, with lateral series of black spots ; wings almost hyaline. Hab. Loyalty Is., Lifu, 1 cJ type. Ea^i. 48 millim. Genus MIGOPLASTIS. Type. Migoplastis, Feld. Verb, Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 285 (1868). corrccta. Pachy2)hilona, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. '62b correcta. Dondera, Moore, A. M. ]S. H. (4) xx. p. 344 (1877) alba. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint upturned to vertex of head, the 3rd porrect; frons with tuft of scales; antennae bipectinate in both sexes ; tibite with the spurs short. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 6 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form a longareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. Sect. I. {Dondera). Hind wing of male with the termen sti-ongly excised between vein 4 and tornus ; antennjB with the branches moderate. 2124. Migoplastis alba. Dondera alba, Moore, A. M. N. H. (4)
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