. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 192 SYNXOMID^. spots on 3rd segment; the ventral valve large and black; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with metallic blue basal spot. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding between veias 1 and 2,. Fig. 90.—Gymnelia xanthogastra, 2- \- 5 . Head and thorax black ; frons, vertex of head, and legs with patches of metallic blue ; abdomen orange, the first two segments black, with subdorsal patches of metallic blue on 2nd segment; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with metallic blue spot
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 192 SYNXOMID^. spots on 3rd segment; the ventral valve large and black; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with metallic blue basal spot. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding between veias 1 and 2,. Fig. 90.—Gymnelia xanthogastra, 2- \- 5 . Head and thorax black ; frons, vertex of head, and legs with patches of metallic blue ; abdomen orange, the first two segments black, with subdorsal patches of metallic blue on 2nd segment; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with metallic blue spot at base. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding between veins 1 and 2. Hah. Beazil, 1 6, Petropolis, 1 $ {Sdiaus), Rio Janeiro, 2 $ . , d 44, 2 46 millim. 393. Gymnelia torquata. (Plate VII. fig. 16.) Gymnelia torquatus, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 377 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 136. S . Black ; antennae white at tips; frons with two white spots; coxae and femora marked with Avhite; tibiae with terminal white points; abdomen with the basal half black, the terminal half scarlet. Fore wing ^rith the basal area, the veins, a discoidal spot, and the margins broadly black; the outer part of cell and the inter- spaces below and beyond it occupied by hyaline patches, leaving the terminal area and a large apical patch black. Hind wing with a hyaline patch beyond the cell from below vein 2 to 7. Hah. Brazil, Petropolis, 1 S • Exj). 50 millim. Type f in Coll. Druce. *394, Gymnelia bnckleyi. Homoioeera hucJchyi, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 374, pi. 39. fig. 5; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 132. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; antennae towards tips, the terminal part of tibiae, and tarsi, white; abdomen greenish black, the 1st segment with two orange-red dorsal spots, the 4th with lateral and sublateral bands, and the 5th and 6th with lateral spots. Fore wing hyaline, the veins black ; the basal area black, with white points at base, and extending along submedian fold to middle and on inner marg
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