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koctuidj:. 



7826. Megistoclisma ribbei. 



Nijdipao ribbei, Tag. J.B. Nass. Ver. xxxix. [i. 140, pi. x. f. 2 (188fi). 



2 . Head oclireous mixed with red-brown ; tegulie ochreou.s at 

 base, red-brown at tips ; thorax grey-brown with a blaekisli line 

 behind the tegulie ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore legs sixffiiscd 

 with red-brown in front : abdomen yellow with a black-brown band 

 at base of dorsum and the two following segments suffused with 

 gi-ey-brown. Fore wing with the costal area grey-brown from 

 inner margin near base to the postmedial line with some black 



Fig. 14. — yiegistoclisma ribbei. $. g. 



suffusion along its very iiregular lower edge and before the post- 

 medial line, the inner area to the subterminal line and the apical 

 area ochreous tinged with red-brown, the terminal area below vein 6 

 grey-brown with some dark stria' and patches of blackish suffusion ; 

 a curved subbasal black striga from costa defined on outer side by 

 grevish and a black striga below the cell ; a curved antemedial 

 black strig-a f i-om costa defined on inner side by gi-eyish ; antemediiil 

 line double, the inner line dark, the outer faint, arising at submediau 

 fold from a tooth from the lower edge of costal area, sinuous to 

 inner margin to which it is slightly bent outwards ; a yellow line 

 on obiter edge of the tooth and along lower edge of the costal area 



