. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 658 AGARISTID^. to base ; the inner area suffused with black and the margin nar- rowly black ; a rather broad terminal black band expanding widely on tornal area. Underside of fore wing with orange fascia in and below cell. Hah. Sta. Ltjcia, Chonana {T. Wolf), typet c^ in Coll. Druce. Ex^. 58 millim, 217. Seirocastnia tribuna, Ephialtias tribuna, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Scbmett. iii. p. 24, ff. 491,492 (1825) ; Druce, Eiol. , Het. i. p. 36; Kirby, Cat. Het. p
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 658 AGARISTID^. to base ; the inner area suffused with black and the margin nar- rowly black ; a rather broad terminal black band expanding widely on tornal area. Underside of fore wing with orange fascia in and below cell. Hah. Sta. Ltjcia, Chonana {T. Wolf), typet c^ in Coll. Druce. Ex^. 58 millim, 217. Seirocastnia tribuna, Ephialtias tribuna, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Scbmett. iii. p. 24, ff. 491,492 (1825) ; Druce, Eiol. , Het. i. p. 36; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 32. Josia continua, Wlk. vii, p. 1646 (1856). Eusemia schausii, H. Edw. Ent, Am. iii. p. 90 (1887); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 33. Black; palpi orange-yellow at base ; tegulae orange in front; pectus orange; mid and hind femora and tibiae fringed with orange ; abdomen orange, with dorsal and ventral black stripes, the anal tuft black. Pore wing with orange wedge-shaped streak in cell, varying in width. Fig. 291.—Seirocastnia tribuna, (^. \. and sometimes not extending to lower angle; an oblique baud from just below costa above angle of cell to vein 2 near termen, varying in width and outline. Hind wing with orange fascia from base to before termen on vein 4, its edges curved and narrowing towards extremities. Underside of fore wing with the fascia from base broader and more curved. Hah. Cuba; Haiti (Tweedie), 1 $ type continua- Guatemala (Champion), 1 S ; 'Kondv-rks(Blancaneaux), 1 c^"; Nicaragua (Belt), 1 c? , Godman-Salvin Coll. Kvjo. 54 millim. 218. Seirocastnia praefecta. (Plate LIII. fig. 4.) Phasis prcsfectus, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 28 (1896). Orthia elaphebolia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xx. p. 299 (1897). Black-brown ; tegula3 with more or less developed orange band in front, sometimes almost obsolete ; coxae and femora with some orange hair; abdomen orange, with black dorsal stripe and lateral lines, ventral segmental lines and the extremity black. Fore wing
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