. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. TEUCEK. 381. spots in middle and end of cell, and a series just beyond it bent inwards below it; a curved subtcrminal series of spots bent inwards below vein 2 ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing black, with hyaline streaks in and below cell; the fold of inner area with yellowish-white patch above, white below ; the rough scales on underside mixed with white. HoJ). Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 cJ fype. Exp. 30 millim. 847. Teucer brevipennis. Telioneum brevipennis, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 45, pi. 16. f. 9 (1877); Kirby, Cat. Het. p
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. TEUCEK. 381. spots in middle and end of cell, and a series just beyond it bent inwards below it; a curved subtcrminal series of spots bent inwards below vein 2 ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing black, with hyaline streaks in and below cell; the fold of inner area with yellowish-white patch above, white below ; the rough scales on underside mixed with white. HoJ). Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 cJ fype. Exp. 30 millim. 847. Teucer brevipennis. Telioneum brevipennis, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 45, pi. 16. f. 9 (1877); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. (S . Head and thorax fuscous and brown ; back of head with two orange spots; coxae white ; abdomen blackish, the anal tuft greyish at tip, the ventral surface white except towards extremity. Fore wing blackish brown, with some ochreous suffusion chiefly on the veins ; a wedge-shaped hyaline spot in cell, and elongate patch below the cell; Fig. \^S.—Teucer brevipennis, S. \. a series of four hyaline spots beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; a rather indistinct subterminal ochreous line angled inwards below vein 2; cilia whitish at apex, at vein 5, and between veins 2 and 3. Hind wing black, with hyaline streaks iu and below the cell towards base, the cilia and the rough scales on underside whitish. Hah. Amazons, Rio Purus {Trail), 1 6 type. Exp. 24 millim. *848. Teucer alhapex. (Plate XIV. fig. 22.) Teiicer alhafcse, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 407 (1898). S. Black ; palpi white in front; patagia and vertex of thorax streaked with greyish ; coxse aud streaks on femora white : abdomen with a bluish tinge, lateral white stripes and the ventral surface white. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell ; an elon<'-ate patch below cell and elongate spots between bases of veins 2-7, leaving a large black discoidal lunule ; the apex white. Hind wing with layaline fascia below the cell and between veins 2 and 3 extending to near termen ; underside with the fold o
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