. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. METACBOCEA.—EUMEXOGASTER. 233 *S15 a. Metacrocea postflava. Metacrocea postflava, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 173 (1905). 2 . Head and thorax Hack-brown ; abdomen with the 1st three segments black-brown tinged with blue, the last five orange, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing brown suffused with grey leaving the veins, and streaks in cell and submedian fold dark brown ;. Fig. 35.—Metacrocea postflava, J. J. traces of diffused curved ante- and postmedial lines ; dark streaks in the interspaces of terminal area. Hind
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. METACBOCEA.—EUMEXOGASTER. 233 *S15 a. Metacrocea postflava. Metacrocea postflava, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 173 (1905). 2 . Head and thorax Hack-brown ; abdomen with the 1st three segments black-brown tinged with blue, the last five orange, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing brown suffused with grey leaving the veins, and streaks in cell and submedian fold dark brown ;. Fig. 35.—Metacrocea postflava, J. J. traces of diffused curved ante- and postmedial lines ; dark streaks in the interspaces of terminal area. Hind wing black-brown, the lower part of cell and interspaces just below and beyond it hyaline. Exp. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type f $ in U-S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 32 millini. 81G. Eumenogaster notabilis, insert (syn.) :— Eumenogaster cawr'en&is, Klages, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 54G (1906), *817 a. Eumenogaster affinis. (Plate XII. fig. 1(5) Eumenogaster affinis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 42 (1911). c? . Palpi andfrons white, the vertex of head fuscous and white ; antennae blackish, the shaft crimson above excepttowards tip ; thorax pale rufous, the patagia edged with black, the metathorax witli pair of blackish points ; pectus and legs fulvous yellow, the coxa' and extremities of fore femora white, with a black streak on extremities of femora and base of tibiae, the extremities of tarsi black, the mid and hind tibiae black at base and extremities ; abdomen with the two basal segments fulvous, the other segments black with a greyish tinge, the ventral surface with the five basal segments fulvous. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly blackish, the costal area suffused with fulvous red to median nervure and vein 4, the inner margin with fulvous fascia. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly brown. Hub. Venezuela, Caura R., Corosito (Klages), type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millini. *818 a. Eumenogaster nigricauda. (Plate XII. fig. 17.) Eumenogaste
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