. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 424 ARGTIADJE. cilia tinged with brown. Undersid* of fore wing suffused with fuscous except the inner area ; hind wing with the costal area irrrorated with black, a slight discoidal spot. Hab. Costa Rica, Guapiles (Schaus), type f S in Nat. Mus. Exp. 16 millini. *106c. Rceselia placens. (Plate XXIV. fig. 19.) Rceselia -placens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 355 (1911). 6 . Head white, the palpi, a bar across frons and antennae red- brown ; thorax gre}r-white mixed with some red-brown ; pectus white; legs and abdomen
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 424 ARGTIADJE. cilia tinged with brown. Undersid* of fore wing suffused with fuscous except the inner area ; hind wing with the costal area irrrorated with black, a slight discoidal spot. Hab. Costa Rica, Guapiles (Schaus), type f S in Nat. Mus. Exp. 16 millini. *106c. Rceselia placens. (Plate XXIV. fig. 19.) Rceselia -placens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 355 (1911). 6 . Head white, the palpi, a bar across frons and antennae red- brown ; thorax gre}r-white mixed with some red-brown ; pectus white; legs and abdomen suffused with red-brown. Fore wing silvery white ; the costal area to discal fold suffused with red-brown and irrorated with blackish to end of cell; a large tuft of rufous scales in and below the cell towards its extremity and a triangular mark on costa above end of cell; a diffused oblique leaden grey postmedial line; a leaden grey subterminal band, oblique frpm costa to vein 6 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it suffused with rufous witli some grey points on costa. Hind wing brown the underside whitish, the costal area slightly irrorated with black, a fuscous discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line. Ha]). Costa Rica, Tuis (Schaus), type t 6 in Nat. Mus. Exp. IS millim. *10b' (/. Rceselia leucogramma. Rceselia leucogramma, Dogn. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. xix. p. 124 (1912). Fore wing of female with elongate depressed groove below vein 11. 2 â Head and thorax pale reddish ochreous mixed with fuscous, the vertex of head white ; pectus, legs, and abdomen white suffused Avith ochreous, the tarsi tinged with fuscous and ringed with Fig. 60.âRceselia leucogramma, £. }â Fore wing white suffused with reddish ochreous and slightly irrorated with black except on terminal area; antemedial line diffused, black defined on inner side by white, slightly angled out- wards below costa, bent outwards at median nervure, then oblique a tuft of ochreous and black scal
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