. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SATJRITA. 273 green scales in, below, and beyond the cell. Hind wing metallic blue-green, with the veins and margins black ; hyaline streaks below the cell and on inner margin. Hah. Amazons, Para (Bates), 3 ? , type. Exp. 30 millim. *597. Saurita biradiata. Pseudomya biradiata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 37 (1874); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 138. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; coxaj, stripes on fore femora, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing black, with slight semihyaline streak below base of cell; two blue-green s
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SATJRITA. 273 green scales in, below, and beyond the cell. Hind wing metallic blue-green, with the veins and margins black ; hyaline streaks below the cell and on inner margin. Hah. Amazons, Para (Bates), 3 ? , type. Exp. 30 millim. *597. Saurita biradiata. Pseudomya biradiata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 37 (1874); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 138. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; coxaj, stripes on fore femora, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing black, with slight semihyaline streak below base of cell; two blue-green streaks in end of cell; the interspaces between veins 2 and 8 hyaline, leaving a terminal black band. Hind wing hyaline, with the veins, cell, and patches at apex and tornus black. Underside with blue in and below cell of fore wing and on costal area of hind wing, and white patch below vein 2 of fore wing. Hah. Amazons. Exp. 28 millim. Type t in Coll. Rothschild. 598. Saurita tristissima. Glaticopis tristissima, Perty, Del. xinim. Art. p. 156, pi. 31. f. 7 (1834) : Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 138. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; thorax with small crimson spot at base of fore vtdng and metallic blue marks at sides ; coxiB white; femora striped with white; abdomen with minute crimson lateral spots near base followed by slight Fig. 126.—Saurita tristissima, c^. J. metallic blue spots; the ven- tral surface white; wings hyaline, with the veins and margins black. Fore wing with the inner margin and apical part of termen rather broadly black. Hind wing with veins 2 and 4 from cell or hardly stalked, 3 absent or from 2 just before margin. Hah. Amazons, Para (Bates). Exp. 26 millim. 599. Saurita tenuis. Pseiulomya tenuis, Butl. III. Het. i. p. 30, pi. 17. f. 1 (1877); Kirby, Cat. Het. p"; 138. (S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; crimson spots on patagia and at base of fore wing ; coxae and stripes on femora white ; wings hyaline, the veins black. Fore wing with the inner area black ;
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