. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PSEUDOPIIAIO.—MESOLASIA. 217 extremity. Fore wing black, the basal half suffused with brilliant metallic green. Hind wing black suffused with brilliant metallic given except the terminal area, irregularly from apex to vein 2 ; a small hyaline patch below base of cell. Underside of fore wing. Fig. 30.—Paeudophaio rosenbergi, J. }. with the basal costal area and the inner area suffused with metallic green ; hind wing almost entirely suffused with metallic green. Hub. Ecuador, Paramba, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 50 milli
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PSEUDOPIIAIO.—MESOLASIA. 217 extremity. Fore wing black, the basal half suffused with brilliant metallic green. Hind wing black suffused with brilliant metallic given except the terminal area, irregularly from apex to vein 2 ; a small hyaline patch below base of cell. Underside of fore wing. Fig. 30.—Paeudophaio rosenbergi, J. }. with the basal costal area and the inner area suffused with metallic green ; hind wing almost entirely suffused with metallic green. Hub. Ecuador, Paramba, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 50 millini. 748 a. Mesolasia pyroproctis, n. sp. (Plate XL fig. 24.) $ . Head and thorax black; patagia with white spots at base ; hind coxa? with white spots ; abdomen black, the basal and three terminal segments fulvous orange. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins black; an oblique black discoidal bar from the costal area to above vein 2, rounded below ; the terminal black band with its inner edge slightly waved and dentate at submedian fold ; the submedian fold and interspaces of terminal area between veins S and 4 with black streaks. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; a black discoidal bar conjoined to the costal area ; the terminal black band expanding slightly towards apex and below vein 2 where its inner edge is angled inwards below veins 2 and 1. Hal. Peru, Yahuaiinayo, 2 § type. Exp. 62 millim. *749 a. Mesolasia analis. (Plate XL fig. 25.) JEthria analis, Schaus, Ent. Soc. ix. p. 42 (1901). $ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; pectus and coxa? slightly tinged with blue; abdomen with the terminal segments scarlet, orange ventrally. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins rather broadly black ; the basal area black with slight blue patches; a broad discoidal black bar conjoined to the costal fascia ; the terminal band even with minutely waved inner edge. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the terminal band broad and slightly dentat
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