. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. UROLASIA. METASTATIA. 371 with large hyaline patch below the cell; the costal and terminal areas broadly black. Underside with some white on retinaculum ; hind wing with white fascia in cell. Hah. Tkinidad. Exp. 30 millim. Type in Coll. Schaus. Genus SESIURA, nov. Type, 8. sniaragdina. Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head ; antennae bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at extremity ; tibise with the spurs sliort; a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. UROLASIA. METASTATIA. 371 with large hyaline patch below the cell; the costal and terminal areas broadly black. Underside with some white on retinaculum ; hind wing with white fascia in cell. Hah. Tkinidad. Exp. 30 millim. Type in Coll. Schaus. Genus SESIURA, nov. Type, 8. sniaragdina. Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head ; antennae bipectinate, with moderate branches dilated at extremity ; tibise with the spurs sliort; abdomen sok ewhat constricted at 5th and 6th segments, then expanding again, the terminal segments with lateral tufts and the anal segment with thick fringe of hair all round. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about two-thii-ds of wing ; vein 2 from well before angle; 3 from angle ; 4 absent; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 822. Sesiura smaragdina. Eunomia smaragdina, Wlk. xxxi. 92 (1864); Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 152. Mthria sahcratiswna, Wlk. xxxi. 93. J . Head and thorax black shot with blue ; palpi white in front ; a line behind eyes and spots on tcgulic and patagia white; coxae and spots on end of mid and hind tibiie white ; abdomen almost completely shot with brilliant metallic blue; a dorsal white point at base ; the fringe on anal segment crimson ; paired series of ventral white spots except on last two segments ; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins rath( r broadly, black. Fig. 182.—Sesiura s?naragdina, (S. \. Fore wing with white point at base; a black discocellular bar : the terminal band expanding towards apex. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding and dentate towards tornus. Ab. 1. Abdomen with the anal tufts orange.—Cayenne, Coll. Standi nger. ffab. Cayenne ; Amazons, Ega (Bates), 1 (S, type of both Walker's descriptions. Exj:). 32 mi
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