. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 34 LITHOSIADiE. 1220 c. Prmnala suana. Idalus suanus, Druce, A. H. (7) is. p, 322 (1902). Head and thorax bright yellow; palpi tinged with pink ; frons and antennas grey-brown ; patagia with brown patch edged with crimson above ; abdomen greyish, the base of dorsum bright yellow, then tinged with crimson. Fore wing bright yellow, the costal edge white; the markings whitish edged with purplish and crim- son ; a small subbasal spot below the cell, points in middle and end. Fig. 10.—Prumala suana, <$. \. of cell, an obli


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 34 LITHOSIADiE. 1220 c. Prmnala suana. Idalus suanus, Druce, A. H. (7) is. p, 322 (1902). Head and thorax bright yellow; palpi tinged with pink ; frons and antennas grey-brown ; patagia with brown patch edged with crimson above ; abdomen greyish, the base of dorsum bright yellow, then tinged with crimson. Fore wing bright yellow, the costal edge white; the markings whitish edged with purplish and crim- son ; a small subbasal spot below the cell, points in middle and end. Fig. 10.—Prumala suana, <$. \. of cell, an obliquely curved postmedial scries from above vein (i to below vein 2, an oblique scries of small spots from a somewhat triangular patch on costa near apex to a conical patch on inner margin, a subterminal series of points from above vein 6 to below 2. Hind wing semi-hyaline white. $. Thorax and abdomen wholly yellow; fore wing with the spots'smaller, hind wing creamy white. Hah. Costa Rtca, Juan Vinas (Sc7taas), 2 c? , 2 £ , Sitio (Schaus), 1 $; W. Coi/OMBIA, San Antonio (Palmer), 1 J; Venezuela, Merida, type f in Coll. Joicey. Exp., S 40, 2 50 millim. *1220 J. Prumala indistincta. Prumala indistincta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 24, pi. 4. f. 14 (1909). $. Head and thorax yellow; palpi orange, black above; an- tennae brown ; pectus and leu's whitish tinged with brown; abdo- men dirty whitish yellow. Fore wing yellow, with series of small brown spots partly edged with orange; a spot in base of cell, an antemedial spot in the cell ami double spot below it, a spot in upper extremity of cell, a series of spots from above vein 6 beyond the cell, incurved below vein 4, a curved postmedial series of spots, a, spot on costa towards ami a subterminal series of points. Hind wing pale yellow. Huh. Vw \ma, Chiriqni ; Pabagitay, Sapucay {Foster),typef 2 i" Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 46 millim. *1220i". Prumala sulphurea. Prumala sulphurea, Joicey. A. H. (8) xviii. p. 54, p


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