. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 100 NOCrUID-T;:. Hah. Beazil, Castro Parana (Z). Jones), Mu3. Exp. 40 millim. type t $ in Nat. *4423. Macapta nebula. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 24.) KoMem nebula, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 99 (190()). (S . Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales tipped with white ; tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with rufous, the basal crest dark ; the ventral surface deep rufons. Fore wing bright rufous irrorated with whitish, the costal edge darker ; an indistinct rufous subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 100 NOCrUID-T;:. Hah. Beazil, Castro Parana (Z). Jones), Mu3. Exp. 40 millim. type t $ in Nat. *4423. Macapta nebula. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 24.) KoMem nebula, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 99 (190()). (S . Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales tipped with white ; tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with rufous, the basal crest dark ; the ventral surface deep rufons. Fore wing bright rufous irrorated with whitish, the costal edge darker ; an indistinct rufous subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, very minutely waved; claviform small, faintly defined by rufous; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former elliptical; an oblique rather diffused rufous medial line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, the inner strong, filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; two well separated, minutely waved, rather diffused subterminal rufous lines, the outer slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; termen and cilia deep rufous, the latter with whitish line at base and whitish tips. Hind wing pure white, the costal area slightly tinged with brown ; a waved blackish terminal line and the cilia tinged with fuscous from apex to vein 2 ; the under- side with the costal area thickly irrorated with rufous, a blackish discoidal point and slight postmedial line on costal area. 5 . Hind wing entirely suffused with brown, the basal area rather paler. Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. S 36, $ 40 millim. 4424. Macapta mursa. Fagitana mm'sa, Scliaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 236 (1894). (S. Head and thorax bright rufous to purplish brown, irrorated with white ; palpi with some blackish scales at base ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous, the basal crest with some blackish. Fig. 26.—Macapta mursa
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