. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. Go4r AGAEISTID^. on each side by chocolate-brown, strongly incurved from below costa to vein 3, then very obliquely incurved. Hind wing black, with elliptical oblique orange patch beyond the cell from below vein 8 to 2. Underside of fore wing with oblique orange post- medial band from below costa to below vein 2, attenuate at extremities. 2 darker. I/ab. SuKiXAM; Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 1 (5,1 § . Exj}., d 50, 2 56 millim. Genus SCHALIFRONTIA, nov. Type, Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fring
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. Go4r AGAEISTID^. on each side by chocolate-brown, strongly incurved from below costa to vein 3, then very obliquely incurved. Hind wing black, with elliptical oblique orange patch beyond the cell from below vein 8 to 2. Underside of fore wing with oblique orange post- medial band from below costa to below vein 2, attenuate at extremities. 2 darker. I/ab. SuKiXAM; Brazil, Sta. Catherina, 1 (5,1 § . Exj}., d 50, 2 56 millim. Genus SCHALIFRONTIA, nov. Type, Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd small, naked ; frons with a three-grooved conical spine ending in a minute fork, the lower part of frons produced into lateral walls ; eyes hairy; antenna? almost simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibise smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein '6 from near angle of cell; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from just below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3 from just before angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- cellulars; G, 7 from upper angle. 211. Schalifrontia furcifer, n. sp. 5 . Black ; tegulse with orange patches; coxaB with some yellow hair ; abdomen with narrow lateral and broad ventral yellow stripes not quite reaching extremity. Fore wing with orange-yeUow .stripe from bfise to origin of vein 2, extending to submedian fold and into middle of cell; an oblique band beyond the cell from below. Fig. 28S.—Schalifrontia furcifer, §. \. co«ta to above vein 2 near termen, rounded at extremities. Hind wing with w'edge-shaped orange-yellow fascia widening from base to near termen, where it extends from just below vein 2 to 7, at base confluent with a fascia on inner area extending to near tornus. llah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina (Schmidt), 1 2 type. -JO millim. Genus PAROTHRIA, nov. Type, P. ccnadorina. Proboscis fully developed; pa
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