. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. AUTOMOLIS. CASTRICA. C'J b. (Cresera). Hind wing of female with veins6, 7 stalked. *1307. Automolis annulata. Cresera ammlata, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 232. 2. Head brown, the vertex ochreous; palpi banded with ochreous ; thorax ochreous, the outer part of tegulae and patagia brown; legs banded with fuscous; abdomen ochreous, dorsally crimson except towards extremity. Fore wing brown ; a slight pink mark on inner margin near base followed by an ochreous streak;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. AUTOMOLIS. CASTRICA. C'J b. (Cresera). Hind wing of female with veins6, 7 stalked. *1307. Automolis annulata. Cresera ammlata, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 232. 2. Head brown, the vertex ochreous; palpi banded with ochreous ; thorax ochreous, the outer part of tegulae and patagia brown; legs banded with fuscous; abdomen ochreous, dorsally crimson except towards extremity. Fore wing brown ; a slight pink mark on inner margin near base followed by an ochreous streak; a series of small triangular ochreous spots on costa from base to beyond middle, with a series of points between them on subcostal nervure, two of the spots connected with a Y-shaped. Fig. 50.—Automolis annulata, 2 • t« antemedial mark extending to below cell and the 5th with a round spot in cell; obliquely-placed points in middle of cell and on median nervure ; slight orange marks on middle of median nervure and at lower angle of cell; two points beyond upper angle ; a large postmedial patch extending from costa to vein 3, irrorated with brownish, with six brown annuli on it, and an oblique line across apical area, a curved series of dark-edged ochreous spots partly conjoined to the outer edge of the patch from apex to below vein 2; some lilacine white suffusion on termen and below the patch. Hind wing pale crimson with slight discoidal spot; the inner margin yellow. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type t $ in Coll. Schaus. 50 millim. Genus CASTRICA. Type. Castrica, Schaus, Journ. New York Ent. Soe. iv. p. 136 (1896),., pkalanoides. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique, reaching just beyond frons; antennae of male bipectinate with rather short branches, of female very short; tibiae with the spurs short; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hairs towards base. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from well above angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9,1
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