. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 502 NOCTUID^. irrorated with brown ; fore wing with white band with sinuous edges from below middle of costa to tornus, with an oblique dark discoidal striga on it, the postmedial patch as above ; hind wing with curved postmedial line and indistinct waved subterminal line with slight whitish spots bej'ond it. Eah. Geem. E. Apeica, Ituraba, Kongwa {Wood), 1 $; IIhodesia, Loangwa K. {Neave), 1 S type. Exp. 70 millim. c. Hind wing of male with a minute corneous hook at base of median nervui'e on underside and minute corneou
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 502 NOCTUID^. irrorated with brown ; fore wing with white band with sinuous edges from below middle of costa to tornus, with an oblique dark discoidal striga on it, the postmedial patch as above ; hind wing with curved postmedial line and indistinct waved subterminal line with slight whitish spots bej'ond it. Eah. Geem. E. Apeica, Ituraba, Kongwa {Wood), 1 $; IIhodesia, Loangwa K. {Neave), 1 S type. Exp. 70 millim. c. Hind wing of male with a minute corneous hook at base of median nervui'e on underside and minute corneous plate below costa (?) acted on by spines of the dilated mid tibia3, the males making a sound like a grasshopper during flight. 7H2G. Achsea mormoides. Achea mormoides, Wlk. xiy. 1393 (1858). AcJima mania, Feld. Reis. Kov. pi. 116. f. 16 (1874). Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; tarsi with slight pale segmental rings. Fore wing grey-brown, the basal and postmedial areas somewhat darker, the medial area irrorated with blackish ; a slight sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian. Ackcea mormoides, cJ. fold; antemedial line indistinctly' double, inwardly oblique, straight; a minute black spot at upper angle of cell and larger spot at lower angle connected by two striae ; medial line slight, blackish, minutely waved, excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, oblique to vein 6 and incurved below. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 10th bart. , 1860-1936. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees
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