. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 268 NOCTUID^. Genus LOPHOTARSIA. Lophotarsia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 299 (1902) Type. ocliro'procta. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd sborD ; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenntB of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clotlied almost entirely with scales and without crests ; build slender; tibise fringed with scales, the tarsi with large tuft of scales on 1st joint; abdomen long and slender, without cre
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. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 268 NOCTUID^. Genus LOPHOTARSIA. Lophotarsia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 299 (1902) Type. ocliro'procta. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd sborD ; irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenntB of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clotlied almost entirely with scales and without crests ; build slender; tibise fringed with scales, the tarsi with large tuft of scales on 1st joint; abdomen long and slender, without crests, the anal tuft very long. Fore wing very long and narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle or very shortly stalked; 6 from just below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 3880. Lophotarsia ochroprocta. Lopliotarsia ochroprocta, Hmosn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 299 (1902). (S. Head rufous with deeper rufous bars above frons and between antennae ; thorax grey tinged with rufous, the tegulse with rufous medial line defined by pale yellow in front; legs suffused with brown and rufous ; abdomen grey, the anal tuft and ventral surface pale yellow suffused with rufous. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous, the inner area from before middle and the postmedial area except at costa tinged with ochreous and rufous, the veins beyond the cell slightly streaked with rufous; a black-brown subbasal line straight and erect from costa to vein 1, then bent outwards and diffused ; traces of a diffused dark antemedial line ; orbicular with faint diffused dark outline, round, a grey-white. Fig. 70.—Lophotarsia ochroprocta, (^. . patch beyond it before the reniform which has its centre defined by black and pale grey annulus defined