. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae 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. Afeica, Kikuyu (Crawshai/), 1 J ; Natal (Oueinzius, Leigh), 2 c?, 1 $ type: C. Colon r,
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae 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. Afeica, Kikuyu (Crawshai/), 1 J ; Natal (Oueinzius, Leigh), 2 c?, 1 $ type: C. Colon r, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 2 $ . Exp. 34-36 millim. B. Abdonien of male witbout lateral tufts of hair ; fore wing with small patch of androconia in cell on underside; hind wing without streak of androconia below cell. 4052. Ariathisa semiluna. Nitocris semiluna, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soe. xix. ined. pi. iv. f. 13. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey ; palpi black-brown, white at tips; tegulae with black-brown band at base; tarsi black riuged with white ; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing purplish grey sufftised and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemediul line black, bent inwards to costa, then sinuous, excurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform black-brown slightly dehned 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. —Ariathisa seiniltina, (^. \. 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 excurved 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. Underside of
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