. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 626 AGAKISTID^. Eab. , N. Mexico, California; Mexico, Jalapa (Trvjillo), 2 (5*, 4 $ ; Guatemala (Rodriguez), 1 2 ; Porto Rico, type t noctuiformis in Coll. Staudinger. Exp., d" 38, $ 44 millim. *164. Tuerta rufodiscalis. Godasa ritfiodiscalis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 47, pi. 14. f. 23 (1896). cT . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with a few white scales; white points on 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, basal joint of antennae, behind th
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 626 AGAKISTID^. Eab. , N. Mexico, California; Mexico, Jalapa (Trvjillo), 2 (5*, 4 $ ; Guatemala (Rodriguez), 1 2 ; Porto Rico, type t noctuiformis in Coll. Staudinger. Exp., d" 38, $ 44 millim. *164. Tuerta rufodiscalis. Godasa ritfiodiscalis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 47, pi. 14. f. 23 (1896). cT . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with a few white scales; white points on 1st and 2nd joints of palpi, sides of frons, basal joint of antennae, behind the eyes, and on tarsal joints; abdomen orange, black at base and extremity, and with dorsal and sublateral series of black spots. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown, with some silvery-blue scales on basal area, in and below middle of cell, on and below discocellulars, and forming traces of sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines; a terminal series of white points with larger spot above tornus. Hind wing orange-red, the basal and costal areas black-brown; a black discoidal bar conjoined to the costal area ; a terminal band broad at costa, narrowing towards tornus. Hah. Madagascar, type t c? in Coll. Rothschild. Eocp. 44 millim. 165. Tuerta memnonia. Misa memnonia, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 356, pi. ii. f. 9. 5 . Black-brown ; head and tegulse in front brown-red; 3rd joint of palpi, frontal prominence, and antennae black ; metathorax with red patch; fore coxae red in front; abdomen with the dorsal tufts. Fig. 274.—Tuerta memnonia, $. \. deep red, the last three segments red above except anal tuft. Fore wing with leaden-silvery spot below base of costa; a subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; an antemedial line, very oblique from costa to median nervure where it is strongly angled, then incurved; a moderately broad oblique yellowish-white medial band ending on inner margin near tornus, with diffused leaden-silvery scales before and beyond it. Hind wing with broad antemedial yell
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