. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CUKYSOKCT A . NICARA. 183 4538. Chrysoecia scira. Anth<xcia scira, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 301, pi. 28. f. 5 (1889). 2. Head brown; tegulae and patagia orange-fnlvoiis ; thorax "whitish; pectus and legs tinged with ochreous, the fore legs brown, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing olive-fulvous, the medial area suffused with brown from costa to submedian. fold, the terminal area creamy white, the inner half of basal area, the medial are
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CUKYSOKCT A . NICARA. 183 4538. Chrysoecia scira. Anth<xcia scira, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 301, pi. 28. f. 5 (1889). 2. Head brown; tegulae and patagia orange-fnlvoiis ; thorax "whitish; pectus and legs tinged with ochreous, the fore legs brown, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing olive-fulvous, the medial area suffused with brown from costa to submedian. fold, the terminal area creamy white, the inner half of basal area, the medial area towards costa and inner margin and beyond the cell irrorated with silvery blue; antemedial line silvery blue, oblique. Fig. 66.— Chrysoecia scira, 2- !• from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; orbicular and reuiform olive-fulvous, indistinctly defined, the former round with silvery blue spot in centre, the latter with silvery blue line in centre ; postraedial line represented by the curved waved edge of brown area from costa to vein 2, with silvery blue point on costa and double oblique stria?, from inner margin, deiincd b}' ati olive-fulvous band on outer side. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with brown. Hah. Mexico, Guerrero {H. H. Siaith), 1 $ type, Godmau-Salvin Coll. Exp. 34 millim! Genus NICARA. mJcara, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 126 (1882) Type. castanea. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, the 3rd minute; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennse of nuile minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibite fringed with rather long hair on outer side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather sliort and broad, the apex rounded, the teruien obliquely curved and not crenulate: veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form thear
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