. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PHAPIS.—LONGIOELLA. 661 *223. Phasis mardava. (Plate LIV. fig. 10.) mardava, Druce, A. M. N. II. (6) xx. p. aOO (Ih'JT). 5. lilack-brown. Fore wing with slightly irregularly pal6 yellow band I'rom just below middle of costa to below vein 2 above tornus, incurved below costa. Nab. Amazons, llio Napo (WhitcJij), type t $ in Coll. Druce. Exj). 4S millim. Genus LONGICELLA. .Lo)i(/icclla, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. ol (1896) Type. mollia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint moderately fringed witli Imir
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PHAPIS.—LONGIOELLA. 661 *223. Phasis mardava. (Plate LIV. fig. 10.) mardava, Druce, A. M. N. II. (6) xx. p. aOO (Ih'JT). 5. lilack-brown. Fore wing with slightly irregularly pal6 yellow band I'rom just below middle of costa to below vein 2 above tornus, incurved below costa. Nab. Amazons, llio Napo (WhitcJij), type t $ in Coll. Druce. Exj). 4S millim. Genus LONGICELLA. .Lo)i(/icclla, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. ol (1896) Type. mollia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint moderately fringed witli Imir in front, the 3rd long, naked, porrect; Irons with roiuided prominence ; antennai nearly simple, sliglitly dilated towards extremity; tibiic and abdomen nearly smootlily scaled ; male with the claspera large, lateral tufts of long hair from 2nd segment. Fore wing witli vein '6 from well before angle of cell ; .') from above angle; G from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to ibrin the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell long: vein ',\ from well before angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discoeellulars ,(>, 7 IVom upper angle. A. Wings blue with black markings vwUis. B. Wings black with white spots luctifcra. 224. Longicella mollis. Eusemia mollis, Wlk. vii. 1774 (1856); Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Yer. sxxviii. p. 8, pi. 2. f. 1 (1885); Kirby, Cut. Het. p. 31. Head and thorax black ; 1st joint of palpi, the 2nd joint in front, a ring round frons, a spot on vertex, and a rim behind eyes yellowish white ; tegulae and patagia edged with yellowish-white hair ; pectus with some white hair ; coxae orange; legs striped with orange; abdomen black, the first three or four segments dorsally banded with bluish white, and the last four or five with orange, the. Fig. 204.—Longicel/a mollis, J. }. ventral surface orange. Fore wing silvery-greenish, or purplish blue irrorated with black ; an oblique irregularly waved black line, expanding into patches below the cell and vein
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