. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELJiOGiN'ATnA. 371 fuscous defined by white on inner side, minutely waved, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, retracted at vein 3 and ending at tornus ; a terminal series of prominent black spots. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; cilia whitish at tips. Hah. CosTA EicA; Panama, Cana Mines (Tylecote), 1 $ type. Exjo. 36 millim. 6690. Elaeognatha argyroleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 6.) 5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing purpli
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELJiOGiN'ATnA. 371 fuscous defined by white on inner side, minutely waved, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, retracted at vein 3 and ending at tornus ; a terminal series of prominent black spots. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; cilia whitish at tips. Hah. CosTA EicA; Panama, Cana Mines (Tylecote), 1 $ type. Exjo. 36 millim. 6690. Elaeognatha argyroleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 6.) 5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with brown in parts especially below the cell and irrorated with black, the terminal area irrorated with white ; a broad silvery white fascia from base of costa extending through the cell and just below it to postmedial line, the aubmedian interspace tinged with sap-green to post- medial line ; a minute black point in middle of cell; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa and between veins 6 and 5, at vein 3 angled inwards to origin of vein 2, then outwards just above vein 1 and inwards above inner margin to middle; sub- terminal line white slightly defined on inner side by black, oblique towards costa, bent inwards at vein 3 and ending at tornus ; a terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by white. Hind wing grey suffused with purple-brown ; cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish, the costa and termen tinged with brown. Halj. Pr. Guiana, Xouveau Chantier {Le Moult), 1 5 type. Exp. 32 millim. Sect. IT. Fore wing of male witli fringe of short hair from subcostal nervure on underside, the cell ahnost entirely filled by a large patch of andro- conia; hind wing with fringe of long hair below basal half of costa on upperside, the termen strongly excised between veins 6 and 3. *6691. Elseognatha troctopera. ElcBognatlia trodopera, Scliaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 203 (1910). S . Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with white ; palpi wi
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