. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 484 SYNTOMID^. *1069. Heliura thys^e. Acridopsis thysbe, Moschl. Verb, Ges. Wien, sxvii. p. 043, pi. 8, f. 14; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. S . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown; vertex of head and tips of patagia white ; abdomen with crimson dorsal patches on last three segments with black spots on them. Fore wing white ; three antemedial black spots ; two medial spots below costa and two above inner margin; a bar-shaped discoidal spot with a streak on costa above it and two spots beyond it; three spots in base of
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 484 SYNTOMID^. *1069. Heliura thys^e. Acridopsis thysbe, Moschl. Verb, Ges. Wien, sxvii. p. 043, pi. 8, f. 14; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. S . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown; vertex of head and tips of patagia white ; abdomen with crimson dorsal patches on last three segments with black spots on them. Fore wing white ; three antemedial black spots ; two medial spots below costa and two above inner margin; a bar-shaped discoidal spot with a streak on costa above it and two spots beyond it; three spots in base of inter- spaces between veins 2 and 5, with two spots below them above inner margin ; a band from costa before apex to vein 5 and spot below vein 5 ; a patch on termen from apex to vein 5 ; two large spots between veins 3 and 5, and two small spots towards tornus. Hind wing with the basal half white, the veins and terminal half blackish. Eah. SuKiNAM. Type t in Coll Staudinger. Exi). 30 millim. 1070. Heliura pieriis. Sphinx pierus, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 367. E (1781); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 200. Acridopsis hicis. Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 45; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. 5 , Head and thorax olive-grey spotted with fuscous; back of head with two crimson spots ; coxae crimson ; abdomen fuscous black, with traces of crimson lines between some of the segments. Fore wing greyish, suffused with olive-yellow towards base ; some black streaks at base, the one above inner margin curved and reach- ing middle of wing ; a round spot in cell, with streak on costa above it; a bar across end of cell and three irregular spots between it and inner margin ; a series of spots just beyond the cell, the two between veins 3 and 5 elongate ; a subterminal maculate band from costa to vein 5 ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing fuscous black, with a hyaline patch in and below the cell. Hah. Amazons, R. Jutahi (Trail), 1 $, type Incis. Exp. 34 millim. 1071. Heliura sanguipalpia, n. sp. cT . Head an
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