. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CYANARCTIA, BELEIINIA. 207 A. Pore wing with hyaline spots on medial area dam%. B. Fore wing with orange posttnedial band 7'iiscia. *1609. Cyanarctia dama. Eup?/ra dima, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 170 (1891); id. Biol. Am., Ilet. ii. p. 334, pi. 70. f. 24. c^. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; tegulae, patagia, pectus, fore toxae, and femora with white spots ; abdomen with lateral series of white points; wings shot with bronze-green. Eore wing with
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CYANARCTIA, BELEIINIA. 207 A. Pore wing with hyaline spots on medial area dam%. B. Fore wing with orange posttnedial band 7'iiscia. *1609. Cyanarctia dama. Eup?/ra dima, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 170 (1891); id. Biol. Am., Ilet. ii. p. 334, pi. 70. f. 24. c^. Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; tegulae, patagia, pectus, fore toxae, and femora with white spots ; abdomen with lateral series of white points; wings shot with bronze-green. Eore wing with white point at base; two elongate hyaline spots in end of cell;. Fig. 118.—Cyanarctia dama a rounded spot below middle of cell, and a rounded patch composed of three spots beyond the cell between veins 4 and 7. Hind wing with two hj'aline streaks in end of cell; a rounded spot below middle of cell, and two spots beyond the cell above veins 4 and 5. Hah. Mexico, Orizaba, Jalapa. Exp, 46 millim. Type in Coll. Druce. *1610. Cyanarctia ruscia. (Plate XLII. fig. 14.) Eucyane ruscia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xv. p. 47 (1895). 2. Black shot with blue. Fore wing with a slightly curved orange band with rather irregular edge from costa just beyond middle to inner margin near tornus. Hind wing with three sub- terminal orange spots between veins 2 and 5 and traces of a spot below vein 2. Hah. Bolivia {Garlepp)^ 1 $ type f in Coll. Druce. Evp. 54 millim. Genus BELEMNIA. Type. Beleninia,^W. i. 211 (1854) eryx. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, short, the 1st and 2nd joints broadly scaled, the 3rd somewhat porrect and dilated ; antennre bipectinate in both sexes, the apical part serrate, the shaft dilated beyond middle, the branches dilated at extremity ; tibise with the spurs short; abdomen smoothly scaled, with slight lateral tubercles on Ist segment. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa arched towards apex, the termen obliquely rounded ; vein 3 from towards angle of cell; 4, 5 s
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