. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. PSEUDOSPHEX, 155 Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 2 from angle of cell. 303. Pseudosphex strigosa. Amycles strigosa, Driice, Biol. , Het. i. p. 46, pi. 8. f. 3 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 127. Black-brown. Fore wing with slight hyaline streak below base of cell; the black-brown shading off to reddish brown towards the apical white patch, which extends down to vein 2 and has a hyaline. Fig. 67.—Pseudosphcx strigosa, cf. \. streak between veins 3, 4 running
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. PSEUDOSPHEX, 155 Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 2 from angle of cell. 303. Pseudosphex strigosa. Amycles strigosa, Driice, Biol. , Het. i. p. 46, pi. 8. f. 3 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 127. Black-brown. Fore wing with slight hyaline streak below base of cell; the black-brown shading off to reddish brown towards the apical white patch, which extends down to vein 2 and has a hyaline. Fig. 67.—Pseudosphcx strigosa, cf. \. streak between veins 3, 4 running up to angle of cell. Hind wing with hyaline streak below base ot" cell and semihyalino patch beyond lower angle of cell above vein 4. Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {H. II. Smith), Jalisco (Schumann), Yuc- atan (Gaume?'); Guatemala, Yera Paz (Champion), type Godman- Salvin Coll. Ewj). 24 millim. Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 2 from before angle of ceil. A. Abdomen pale yellow, with broad black bands laticincta. B. Abdomen fulvous yellow, without bands polistes. 0. Abdouien black. a. Fore wing clouded with pale brown, with hyaline fasciai in and below cell icJmeumonea. h. Fore wing fuscous suffused with blue, with hyaline fascia below cell hyalozona. 304. Pseudosphex laticincta, n. sp. (Plate YI. fig. 8.) Sphecosoma fascioiatuui, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 54 (part), nee Butl. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow; palpi banded with black ; frons whitish; antennae black towards base and with black band between their bases; tegula? edged with black; patagia and thorax striped with black; abdomen with dorsal stripes on 1st segment and bands on lateral tubercles ; the other segments with black bands expanding to slight points behind on dorsum ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly fuscous and fulvous. Fore wing with the costal area clouded with fulvous. Hah. Guatemala, Yera Paz, 1 (S {Chaminon), type Godman- Salvin Coll. 2(S millim. 305. Pseudosphex polistes. P
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