. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EOBINSONIA. NEIDAIJA. 13 above vein 4 and wedge-shaped patches above veins 2 and 3 ; a white streak on middle of inner margin. Hind wing white with fuscous streaks on veins 2 and 1, the former expanding into a patch on termen; veins 3 and 5 shortly stalked. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type t J in Coll. Schaus. Kcp. 46 millim. Sect. II. Fore wing sliort and broad. *1202. Robinsonia formula. Robinsonia formula, Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Pliilad. v. p. 241, pi. 4. f. 3 (1865); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 235. S . Head and thorax brown ; vertex


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. EOBINSONIA. NEIDAIJA. 13 above vein 4 and wedge-shaped patches above veins 2 and 3 ; a white streak on middle of inner margin. Hind wing white with fuscous streaks on veins 2 and 1, the former expanding into a patch on termen; veins 3 and 5 shortly stalked. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type t J in Coll. Schaus. Kcp. 46 millim. Sect. II. Fore wing sliort and broad. *1202. Robinsonia formula. Robinsonia formula, Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Pliilad. v. p. 241, pi. 4. f. 3 (1865); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 235. S . Head and thorax brown ; vertex of head, tegulte, and patagia with large white patches ; back of head and throat with orange spots ; legs fuscous striped with Avhite ; abdomen orange-red. Fore wing brown, with large fusiform white patch below the cell almost conjoined to a small similar spot above tornus; an oblique band from apex to vein 3 conjoined to a large triangular patch arising in end of cell. Hind wing white ; the tornus yellowish ; cilia fuscous. Hah. Cuba, in Coll. Staudinger. Exj). 38 millim. Genus NEIDALIA, nov. Type, N. villacresi. Proboscis absent; palpi obliquely upturned, not reaching vertex of head; antennae of male serrate and fasciculate; bead, thorax, abdomen, and legs clothed with rough bair ; tibiae with the spurs sliort. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 1), 10, 11 stalked, 10 from beyond 7. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4 absent; 0, 7 coincident and 8 strongly stalked with them. *1203. Neidalia villacresi. , Idalus villacresi, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxviii. p. 238 (1894); id. Lep. Loja, p. 103, pi. 11. f. 2. S • Orange-red; palpi, fore femora above, the femoro-tibial joints and tarsi black; ventral sm-face of abdomen with diffused. Fig. 3.—NeiduUa villacresi, (^ blackish bands. Fore wing with very oblique black line from below costa beyond middle to above inner margin before middle, crossing


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