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almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, ilie metatborax with 

 spreading crest; tibiae moderately fringed with liair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the ternien evenly 

 curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 

 upper angle ; '.» from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from an^le of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male minutely serrate. 



A. Fore wing black-brown suffused with leaden grey leucophlebia. 



B. Fore wing ochreous brown apertura. 



3873. Laphygrna leucophlebia. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 23.) 



Prodenia leucophlebia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 233 (1902). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with some grey and 

 black, the head darker, the antennae whitish ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish, the basal crest black, the anal tuft tinged 

 with rufous, the ventral surface blackish. Fore wing black-brown 

 suffused with leaden grey and irrorated with black, the base of 

 inner margin and terminal area paler, the medial area with the. 

 median nervure and bases of veins 4, 3 streaked with white ; sub- 

 basal line represented by double black striae from costa and a 

 blackish patch below cell ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 greyish, oblique, minutely waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former whitish with 

 pale red-brown centre, narrow, oblique, produced at lower extremity, 

 the latter with fuscous centre and whitish annulus, with straight 

 inner edge and constricted at middle; an indistinct oblique waved 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double rilled in with greyish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, minutely waved, slightly excurved at median nervules, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, minutely 

 waved, indistinct towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7, very 

 slightly excurved at middle and angled inwards in submedian fold, 

 with series of diffused somewhat wedge-shaped black marks before 

 it in the interspaces, a series of fine white striae beyond it defined 

 on outer side by slight black strioe confluent with the terminal series 

 of small somewhat triangular black spots ; cilia black-brown 

 intersected with white and with some white at tips. Hind wing 

 pure white, the apex slightly tinged with brown ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged with brown and with a terminal series 

 of minute dark points from apex to vein 2. 



Bab. Transvaal, White E. (Cooke), 1 6 ; Natal, Karkloof 

 (Marshall), 2 cv , 1 $ type; Qceexslaxd, Brisbane (Turner), 1 J • 

 Exp. 34-36 millim. 



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