. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 31.—Faratrachea laches, J . olive and purplish areas, obliquely incurved, slightly escurvcd and waved below veins 7, 6: cilia olive-yellow, dark brown at tips except towards tornus. Hind wing pale yellowish suff'used with red-brown except basal and costal areas ; cilia yellow; the under- side whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with pink, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Bab. Panama. Chiriqui (Chamjnon), 1 $ type, Godmau-Salvin Coll.; Peru, St. Domingo, 1 c? , 1 $ . Kvj). -18 mill
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 31.—Faratrachea laches, J . olive and purplish areas, obliquely incurved, slightly escurvcd and waved below veins 7, 6: cilia olive-yellow, dark brown at tips except towards tornus. Hind wing pale yellowish suff'used with red-brown except basal and costal areas ; cilia yellow; the under- side whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with pink, a slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Bab. Panama. Chiriqui (Chamjnon), 1 $ type, Godmau-Salvin Coll.; Peru, St. Domingo, 1 c? , 1 $ . Kvj). -18 millim. 2994. Paratrachea chalybeata. (Plate CXIII. fig. 25.) Ncsnia chalyleata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 64; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 214. Hadena spectahiUs, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. ex. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with a few white hairs ; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface with a few white hairs, the anal tuft mixed with oehreous. Pore wing deep red-brown mixed with some pale rufous and irrorated with silvery purple scales especially on the veins; subbasal line silvery purple, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line silvery purple, oblique, angled inwards in cell, on vein 1, and to inner margin ; claviform faintly defined by brown at extremity; orbicular and reniform defined by deep brown, open below and connected by a slight brown streak above median nervure, the former oblique elliptical, the latter large with flesh-coloured annulus ; postmedial line double filled in with silvery purple and defined by pale rufous on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutety dentate and with white points beyond it on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Briti
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