MEGANEPHUTA. 



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Jfiselia capucina, Mill. Icones, iii. p. 1G5, pi. 11(1. f. 6 (18G9). 

 Miselia hcnedictina , Staud. Ii'is, iv. p. 28;> (1891). 

 Misclia aslaticn, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 283 (1891). 



Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed witli grey ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; f rons with dark bar above ; patagia greyer 

 edged with black ; abdomen pale reddish brown, the dorsal crests 

 blackish. Eore wing pale reddish brown suffused in parts with 

 deeper red-brown, especially in outer part of medial area ; the 

 veins with slight dark streaks, the subcostal and median nervures, 

 vein 1, and inner margin irrorated with some silvery green scales ; 

 a strong black streak below base of cell extending across the 

 indistinctly double antemedial line, which is angled outwards below 

 costa, inwards in submedian fold, excurved between these points 

 and above inner margin ; claviform very large, slightly defined by 

 black, acute at extremity, extending to cell and with some blacJi 



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Fig. 98. — Meganephria oxyacanthce, (^ . \. 



suffusion from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform large 

 defined by black and with some brown in centres, the former some- 

 what quadrate, the latter with its upper extremity produced to a 

 large rounded lobe ; medial line represented by a dark bar from 

 costa and incurved line from vein 1 to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 indistinct and sinuous below vein 4, excurved at submedian 

 fold, then oblique and with prominent white lunule on 

 it ; postmedial area paler rufous except towards costa on which are 

 some pale points ; subterminal line pale, waved, interrupted, defined 

 on inner side by slight black streaks below costa, then by small 

 somewhat dentate brown marks, oblique at costa, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and inwards in submedian fold ; terminal area 

 slightly suffused with silvery green ; a fine waved black terminal 

 line with wedge-shaped black streaks below veins 4, 3, 2 ; cilia pale 

 and dark red-brown. Hind wing pale red-brown suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; two slight dark and pale curved marks on vein 2 

 towards termen ; a fine dark terminal line : cilia pale at base ; the 

 underside whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. ccqnicina. Fore wing darker brown, with the markings 

 less distinct. — Britain. 



Ab. 2, benedictina. Fore wing dark greyish brown ; hind wing 

 whitish. — Syria. 



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