. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EPITALARA. 719 above tomus; apex tinged with rufous. Hind wing pale fuscous, the costa whitish. 11(d). Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type t $ in Nat. Mus. Exp. 10 niillim. Genus EPITALARA. Type. Epitalara, Dyar, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 175 (1905) reversd. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond tbe frons ; antennas of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs long-. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 from cell, free.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EPITALARA. 719 above tomus; apex tinged with rufous. Hind wing pale fuscous, the costa whitish. 11(d). Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type t $ in Nat. Mus. Exp. 10 niillim. Genus EPITALARA. Type. Epitalara, Dyar, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 175 (1905) reversd. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond tbe frons ; antennas of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs long-. Fore wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 from cell, free. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident; 5 absent; 6, 7 strongly stalked; 8 from towards angle of cell. In key differs from Apaidia in the fore wing having vein 7 from 8 beyond 9 ; 11 not anastomosing with 12 ; hind wing with veins 3, 4 coincident. *861 d. Epitalara reversa. Epitalara reversa, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 205 (1905). $ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen whitish tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous white. Fore wing whitish slightly irrorated with brown; traces of a minutely waved antemedial line, angled outwards on median nervure ; the apical area mostly dull reddish from middle of costa to tornus,. Fig. 236.—Epitalara reversa, §. ]-. leaving an apical whitish patch with subterminal and apical rufous costal spots on it; a small blackish discoidal spot; an indistinct postmedial line, waved and obliquely excurved from costa to vein 1, then incurved ; a dark terminal line with small white spots before it at middle and tornus ; cilia checpiered fuscous and white. Hind wing pale fuscous. Underside of fore wing pale fuscous leaving a whitish apical patch. Hah. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type f £ in Nat. Mus. Exp. 11 millim. *8G1 e. Epitalara ccmmixta. Paratalara commixta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 366 (1911). Underside of fore wing of male with large elliptical patch of androconia surrounde
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