. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. DIAMUNA. 653 208. Diamuna severa. Phalcena severa, Cram. Tap. Exot. iv. p. 235, pi. 398, L (1782). $. Deep red-brown; pectus and mid and hind femora and tibiae orange; abdomen black. Pore wing slightly irrorated with silvery blue ; traces of an antemedial erect line below the cell; the postmedial line rather indistinct, double, defined by bluish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing deep orange, with black terminal band with curv
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. DIAMUNA. 653 208. Diamuna severa. Phalcena severa, Cram. Tap. Exot. iv. p. 235, pi. 398, L (1782). $. Deep red-brown; pectus and mid and hind femora and tibiae orange; abdomen black. Pore wing slightly irrorated with silvery blue ; traces of an antemedial erect line below the cell; the postmedial line rather indistinct, double, defined by bluish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing deep orange, with black terminal band with curved inner edge. Underside ot fore wing with orange postmedial band from costa to below vein 2, attenuate at extremities. Hah. Surinam; Amazons, E. Jutahi {Trail), 1 $. Ex^. b(S millim. *209. Diamuna hesperina. Darceta hesperina, Au88ereur. Schmett. p, 13, f. 524 (1850;. 2 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-brown ; antennae blackish ; mid and hind femora and tibiae fringed with orange hair; abdomen black-brown. Pore wing deep chocolate, irrorated with blue-white scales on basal inner area, on costal area before the postmedial line, and on terminal area; a waved double pale-brown almost medial line, almost obsolete except from cell to inner margin ; a large indistinct reniform spot; a double grey-brown postmedial line strongly excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing orange; a broad black-brown terminal band running inwards on costa to before middle and on inner margin to base on upperside and to before middle on underside; a diff'used black patch some- times present below middle of cell. Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina, Coll. Staudinger. Exp. ^Q millim. 210, Diamuna proserpina. Phalcena-Nocttca proserphia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 239, pi. 399, I (1782). Darceta hesperina, Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 525, 526 (1850).. Fig. 287.—Diamuna proserpina, (^. \. cJ. Deep red-brown; pectus and legs with some fulvous hair; abdomen black. Pore wing irrorated
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