. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 424 KOCTTJIDiE. the apex quadrate, the termen excurved at middle, then excised to tornus, not crenulate ; Teius 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; B from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with reins 3, 4 from ani^le of cell; 5 obsolescent fi-om middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 irom upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base onlj. 4896. Vespola caeruleifera. Vespola ccBruleifera, WJk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 186 (18G8); Dnice, Biol. , Het. i. p. 3
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 424 KOCTTJIDiE. the apex quadrate, the termen excurved at middle, then excised to tornus, not crenulate ; Teius 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; B from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with reins 3, 4 from ani^le of cell; 5 obsolescent fi-om middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 irom upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base onlj. 4896. Vespola caeruleifera. Vespola ccBruleifera, WJk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 186 (18G8); Dnice, Biol. , Het. i. p. 352, pi. 31. f. 12. S . Head and thorax black-brown' sparsely irrorated with silvery blue scales, the pro- and metathoracic crests with some rufous ; tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen very dark red-browti irrorated with a few silvery blue scales, pale silvery blue lateral fasciae from 2nd to 5th segments, the ventral surface to 5th segment white tinged with silvery bine towards extremity. Pore wing black-brown irrorated with silvery blue, the terminal area with a leaden grey gloss ; a waved silvery blue antemedial line excurved at median nervure ; orbicular an indistinct dark brown spot ;. Fig. 202.— Vespola ccBruleifera, J. !• reniform indistinct, dark brown with slight rufous centre ; poat-- medial line silvery blue, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and sinuous ; subterminal line represented by a chocolate- red patch below costa with oblique line from it to termen below vein 4 and an oblique line from vein 3 to termen above tornus ; a rather maculate black terminal line. Hind wing black-brown with a brilliant metallic blue fascia along median nervure from near base expanding into a large patch beyond the cell. Underside of fore wing with some brilliant metallic blue suifusion below basal half of costa and in and just below cell; hind wing suffused and irrorated with brilliant metallic blue except at apex. Hah. Panama, Bugaba (Cham2}ion), 1 c?,
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