. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 160 STNTOMID^. yellow : frous white ; antcnuoe black towards base ; tegulse edged with black ; patagia and thorax striped with black ; legs banded with black : abdomen with black dorsal and subdorsal stripes on first two segments, the other segments banded with black; _,._,â, ^ , wings hyaline, the veins and Fig. 72.âSphccosomacoqnatum, r?. |. ⢠, -, â , -r, ^ "^ > u I margins narrowlj' dark, iore wing with slight yellow streaks below costa and above base of inner margin. Hob. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 Godman-Salvin
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 160 STNTOMID^. yellow : frous white ; antcnuoe black towards base ; tegulse edged with black ; patagia and thorax striped with black ; legs banded with black : abdomen with black dorsal and subdorsal stripes on first two segments, the other segments banded with black; _,._,â, ^ , wings hyaline, the veins and Fig. 72.âSphccosomacoqnatum, r?. |. ⢠, -, â , -r, ^ "^ > u I margins narrowlj' dark, iore wing with slight yellow streaks below costa and above base of inner margin. Hob. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 Godman-Salvin Coll.; Colombia, Santa Martha, 1 ^ {Bouchard), type fasciolatum. AuAzoNS, typef cognatum in Mus. Oxon. Ea^p, 26 millim. 315. Sphecosoma melissa. (Plate VI. fig. 4.) Sphecosoma melissa, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 131 (1896). Head black ; palpi and cheeks yellow ; frons and a band on vertex of head white; tegulae yellow ; thorax striped yellow and black; pectus and legs yellow marked with black ; abdomen black, with greyish-yellow bands, the 1st segment with two dorsal yellow spots ; wings yellowish hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black. Fore wing with slight orange streak below base of costa and two slight streaks above base of inner margin. Bab. Brazil, Sta. Catharina, 2 S, Sao Paulo ; type t in Coll, Schaus. ). 26 millim. 316. Sphecosoma surrentum. Sphecosoma surrentum, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 375, pi. 39. f. 8; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. c? . Head and thorax orange and black ; abdomen black, the 1st segment orange, with three dorsal black stripes meeting posteriorly, the 2nd segment with some orange at sides; the ventral valve yellowish white ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly black. Hah. Bolivia, Puerto S. Eosa, 1 S {Garlcpp). Exp. 26 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. *317. Sphecosoma ecuadorum. (Plate VI. fig. 24.) SphecosomM eeuadora, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 376 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 135. S. Head and thorax black and orange ; palpi yellow
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