. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 254 (â ) from \ipper angle; 7, 8, 0, 10 stalked, 10 from bevond 7; 11 free. Hind wiiiK with vein 2 from beyond midillo of eell; 3 from angle; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; , 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. A. Hind wins; erimpon coccinea. B. Hind wing blue-black tcnebrosa. *o'SA. Nyctosia coccinea. (I'Lite XXV. fig. fi.) I^yctosia coccinea, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 217 (1899). $ . Head, thornx, and abdomen black with sli;::ht bluisli gloss. Fore wing dull brownish black. Hind wing crimson, with black fa
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 254 (â ) from \ipper angle; 7, 8, 0, 10 stalked, 10 from bevond 7; 11 free. Hind wiiiK with vein 2 from beyond midillo of eell; 3 from angle; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; , 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. A. Hind wins; erimpon coccinea. B. Hind wing blue-black tcnebrosa. *o'SA. Nyctosia coccinea. (I'Lite XXV. fig. fi.) I^yctosia coccinea, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 217 (1899). $ . Head, thornx, and abdomen black with sli;::ht bluisli gloss. Fore wing dull brownish black. Hind wing crimson, with black fascia on costal area and the cilia black. llah. Mkxico, 1 2 , typet in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 38 millim. 534. Nyctosia tenebrosa. Apisfosia tcnehrofa, Wlk. xxxv. 1881 (18G0); Druce, Biol. , Ilet. i. p. 121 ; Kirby. Cat. Het. p. 286. Ctenurha proxima, H. Edw. Pap. iv. p. 14 (1884); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 178. Head and thorax orange-red ; palpi, antennte, a patch between their bases, tegulse, patagia, and legs blue-black; abdomen blue- black ; the end of anal tuft orange in male. Fore wing black shot with bronze-green. Hind wiug black shot with dull Fig. 1G9.âNi/ctosia tenebrosa, cj'. [, Hah. ^[, 1 d , 1 2 type, Jalapa (Hoege, TrHJiUo), 2 J , 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll.; Guatemala. Exj). 48-52 millim. Genus SYNTOMIMORPHA, nov. Type, S. ceernhscena. Proboscis fully developed : pal]ii upturned, smoothly scaled, the 2ncl joint reaching nearly to vertex of head, the 3rd well developed ; frons smoothly scaled; antenntf of male ciliated; tibijc with the spurs short; abdomen e\t4'ndinf; well beyond hind wing. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa arched towards apex, termen obliquely rounded; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 0 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form a long areole, 7 from areole ; 11 free ; retinaculum of male formed by a tuft of hair from subinedian fold. Hind wing of male with the tornus | roduced to a lobe, t
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