. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 508 the anal tuft white below. Fore wing black ; the basal area glossed with metallic blue; a broad pure white antemedial band with sinuous edges, narrowing considerably to eosta ; a band of silvery blue suffusion near the inner edge of the black terminal half ; an elliptical deep chocolate-red subterminal patch from below eosta to above inner margin, followed by a silvery blue band with dentate outer edge. Hind wing black-brown with oblique conical white. Fig. 177.âNeoscaptia fusci mitens, rf ⢠f. patch extend
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 508 the anal tuft white below. Fore wing black ; the basal area glossed with metallic blue; a broad pure white antemedial band with sinuous edges, narrowing considerably to eosta ; a band of silvery blue suffusion near the inner edge of the black terminal half ; an elliptical deep chocolate-red subterminal patch from below eosta to above inner margin, followed by a silvery blue band with dentate outer edge. Hind wing black-brown with oblique conical white. Fig. 177.âNeoscaptia fusci mitens, rf ⢠f. patch extending on eosta from base to beyond middle and to above tornus. Ui derside of fore wing fuscous black, the red reduced to a fascia below eosta towards apex. Hub. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare II., Biagi (MeeJc), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. IS millim. *592 /. Neoscaptia affinis. (Plate XXXI. fig. 2G.) Neoscaptia affinis, Boths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 239 (1912). 2 â Head and thorax black suffused with metallic blue, the tegulae pure wfaite ; abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft white below. Fore wing black; the basal area glossed with metallic blue; a broad white antemedial band with sinuous edges narrowing considerably to eosta; a broad rounded dee]) chocolate-red sub- terminal patch from below eosta to just above inner margin, defined on inner side by silvery blue suffusion and on outer narrowly by silvery blue with dentate outer edge. Hind wing black-brown with oblique conical white patch extending on eosta from base to beyond middle and to above tornus. Underside of fore wing fuscous black with the red reduced to a fascia below apical part of eosta. Hah. Br. X. Guinea, Mambare R., Biagi (Meek), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 18 millim. This is possibly the female of N. fascionitens. *592w. Neoscaptia albicollis. (Plate XXXI. fig. 27.) Neoscaptia albicollis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 240 (1912). Head and thorax black-brown glossed with metallic blue, the tegulae pure white
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