. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. IDALUS. 21 front, brown behind ; antennae brown ; frons and vertex of head with brown spots, back of head and tegula? with paired spots ; patagia edged with brown above, thorax brown; legs whitish streaked with brown; abdomen orange-yellow with fuscous patches at base and extremity, the anal tuft white. Fore wing brown suffused with purple, the veins streaked with yellowish white ; an orange patch on inner margin from near base to near tornus, narrow towards base, expanding towards extremity; a triangular patch from costa bey
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. IDALUS. 21 front, brown behind ; antennae brown ; frons and vertex of head with brown spots, back of head and tegula? with paired spots ; patagia edged with brown above, thorax brown; legs whitish streaked with brown; abdomen orange-yellow with fuscous patches at base and extremity, the anal tuft white. Fore wing brown suffused with purple, the veins streaked with yellowish white ; an orange patch on inner margin from near base to near tornus, narrow towards base, expanding towards extremity; a triangular patch from costa beyond middle to vein 3. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the underside with some fuscous scales below base of costa. Hind wing with veins 6, 7 forking just before termen. Hah. Fb. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type f J in Nat. Mus. Exp. 32 millim. *1212 b. Idalus flavithorax. Idalus flavithorax, Joicey, P. 1917, p. 265, pi. 1. f. 4 (1918). d . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, the last with the three terminal segments grey-black ; antenna? white with the serrations blackish; palpi and legs tinged with brown. Fore wing pale rufous, the veins, cell, and submedian fold streaked with white; a large conical yellow postmedial patch from costa to below vein 4 and a semicircular patch on terminal part of inner margin ; cilia white. Hind wing white slightly tinged with yellow. Underside of fore wing very pale rufous with the yellow postmedial costal patch as above ; hind wing white tinged with yellow. Hah. Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, type t d in Coll. Joice}'. Exp. 36 millim. *1213 a. Idalus albicoxae. Idalus albicoxx, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 208 (1906). Antenna? of male with bristles and cilia ; hind wing with the costal area greatly dilated, a patch of androconia in and bej'ond end of cell on upperside, vein 8 from middle of cell. $. Head yellow; palpi brown, crimson at sides towards base ; antenna? brown, crimson at base and whitish at tips ; tegula? yellow with crimson s
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