. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NEPHELISTIS. 251 costa; subtorminal Hue represented by a series of white undula- tions on brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, whitish towards base and inner margin ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion), 1 c? type, Godman- Salvin Coll. Eap. 3-i millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate with very short branc
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NEPHELISTIS. 251 costa; subtorminal Hue represented by a series of white undula- tions on brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, whitish towards base and inner margin ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion), 1 c? type, Godman- Salvin Coll. Eap. 3-i millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate with very short branches, the apex ciliated; mid tibioa dilated, fringed with very long hair and with expansible tuft of long yellow hair; underside of both wings mostly clothed with bright ochreousandroconia and hair to beyond middle. A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below vein 4 ... clauda. B. Fore wing with the postmedial line obliquely curved. a. Head and tegula; rufous furva. b. Head and tegulie purplish brown differens. 1483. Nephelistis clauda. Conservula clauda, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894); Druce, Biol. , Het, ii. p. 475. TcBniocompa veUerca, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 484 (part.), ueo Schaus. Head and thorax dark brown tinged with grey ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen dark grey-brown. Fore wing dark brown suffused with purplish grey and irrorated with whitish ; traces of a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct oblique waved autemedial line; the medial area suffused with black-brown from submedian nervure to vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey, the former round; post- medial line grey slightly defined by blackish on inner side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and excurved at median ^??5^-^. Fig. 47.—Nephelistis clauda, (S. \. nervules ; subterminal line represented by a very obscure series of whitish marks on diffused blackish patches, slightly angled o
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