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almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the meta.thorax witli 

 spreading crest; tibiae moderately fringed witii hair; iibdomen with dorsal 

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

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

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing vv'ith veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of di.scocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna2 of male minutely serrate.' 



A. Fore wing black -brown suffused with leaden grey le.ucophlebia. 



B. Fore wing ochreous brown a'periura. 



3873. Laphygma leucophlebia. (Plate CXXVIII, fig. i:3.) 



Trodenia lexicoiphlehia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 288 (1902), 



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

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

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

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

 suffused with leaden gre}^ 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 indistirtct oblique waved 

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

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

 oblique, minutely waved, slightly exourved 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 striae 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. 



Hah. Transvaal, White E. {CooTce), 1 S ; Natal, Karkloof 

 (Marshall), 2 c? , 1 $ type 5 Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 <? . 

 Exp. 34-36 millira. 



