. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 206 SYNTOMID^. tegulae and patagia with crimson spots ; coxae and lateral patches on thorax white ; abdomen with yellowish dorsal patch on 1st segment, the 2nd and 3rd segments yellow at sides, white below; wings hyaline, the veins black, the margins rather broadly black. Fore wing with discoidal black spot; the terminal band broad on apical area and at tornus. Hind wing with the terminal band widening at apex and towards tornus. Hab. Honduras {Miller), type ; Amazons, Ega (Bates). Exp. 32 millim. Genus MIMAGYRTA, nov. Type, M.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 206 SYNTOMID^. tegulae and patagia with crimson spots ; coxae and lateral patches on thorax white ; abdomen with yellowish dorsal patch on 1st segment, the 2nd and 3rd segments yellow at sides, white below; wings hyaline, the veins black, the margins rather broadly black. Fore wing with discoidal black spot; the terminal band broad on apical area and at tornus. Hind wing with the terminal band widening at apex and towards tornus. Hab. Honduras {Miller), type ; Amazons, Ega (Bates). Exp. 32 millim. Genus MIMAGYRTA, nov. Type, M. pamjxi. Proboscis fullj' developed ; palpi uptiinied, reaching vertex of head ; antennaj of female bipectinate, with short branches dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle ; tibial with the spurs moderate ; abdomen with lateral tubercles at base. Fore wing with veiu 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6 from just below upper angle; 7, 8, 10, 11 stalked, 9 absent. Hind wing with the lower part of cell short; veins 2 and 4 on a long stalk, 3 from 2; 5 absent; 6, 7 separate and parallel. 426. Mimagyrta pampa. Metastatia pampa, Druce, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 284. 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black shot with blue ; palpi at base, sides of frons, and stripes on cox£e and femora white ; abdomen with slight subdorsal and broad ventral white stripes. Fore wing black, with patch of brilliant blue on base of inner area ; a triangular hyaline spot in cell; a streak below vein 2 and a triangular spot above base of vein 2 ; a curved fascia beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3. Hind wing suffused with brilliant blue; a hyaline fascia from base below the cell and vein 2 extending above vein 4 and between 3 and 4 to near term en. Hah. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley), typef in Coll. Druce. Amazon, Telle, 1 5 . E-vji. 38 Fig. 98.—Mimagyrta pampa, ^. Genus LOXOPHLEBIA. Loxophlebia, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 381 (1876) Type. vesparis. Proboscis well develope
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