. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIMILIA. TYRIA. 185 1558. Emilia testudo, ii. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 21.) d . Dark brown, vertex of head pale yellow; shoulders with pale yellow patches ; neck pinkish fulvous; tarsi ringed with yellow. Fore wing brown with a slight silvery gloss ; the median nervurc streaked with fulvous ; yellow spots on costa at middle and before apex. Hind wing hyaline, the terminal area tinged with fuscous broadly at apex and tornus. JIah. Peru, Chanchamayo (Thamm), 1 J type. Kvp. 34 millim. 1559. .SEmilia pagana. Halisidota pagana, Scbaus,


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. JIMILIA. TYRIA. 185 1558. Emilia testudo, ii. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 21.) d . Dark brown, vertex of head pale yellow; shoulders with pale yellow patches ; neck pinkish fulvous; tarsi ringed with yellow. Fore wing brown with a slight silvery gloss ; the median nervurc streaked with fulvous ; yellow spots on costa at middle and before apex. Hind wing hyaline, the terminal area tinged with fuscous broadly at apex and tornus. JIah. Peru, Chanchamayo (Thamm), 1 J type. Kvp. 34 millim. 1559. .SEmilia pagana. Halisidota pagana, Scbaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 230. Elack-brown ; palpi orange, black at tip; the basal joint of antenna?, a bar between their bases, and the sides of vertex orange; the edges of patagia, pectus, and femora above orange ; abdomen. Fig. 107.—MiniUa pagana, 5. !• with lateral orange bands intersecting the dorsal black area, w^hich on the last two segments is more or less reduced to spots. Fore wing with the veins darker ; some orange hair at base of inner margin of fore wing and at base of hind wing, which is rather thinly scaled. Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana {Jones), 1 J. Exp. 42 millim. Type t in Coll. Scbaus. 15G0. .Emilia asignata, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 7.) Pale brown ; palpi at tips and frons fuscous ; vertex of head yellowish ; abdomen dorsally orange, with short dorsal bands and "lateral series of spots. Fore wing with the discocellulars fuscous. Hind wing whitish, tinged with brown towards termcn. JIah. Brazil, lli-j Grande do Sul, 1 $ type, S in Coll. Staudingor. Exp. 44 millim. Genus TYRIA. ^^^ ^ Tymt, Hiibn. Verz. p. IfiG (1S27) jac'ohaa. Euchclia, 13oiscl. Gen. Ind. Meth. p. 56 (1840) jacohme. Hipocrita, Iliibn. Tent, ined jacobcece. Proboscis nbortod, small; palpi ])Orrept, short, and clotlicd witli long liair ; liead and thorax clothed willi rough hair; abdomen more snioot lily scaled ; untenniT'of male ciliated; libia'wilh llio spurs moderate. Fore wing witii vein .'


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