. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MYOrSYCHE. 51 Sect. II. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 from a point. A. Tegulie orange ; abdomen with dorsal orange stripe idda. B. Tegulai and abdomen blue-black '. victorina. C. Tegulae with white patches ; abdomen with white lines on Ist and 5th segments elachista. *47. Myopsyche idda. (Plate I. fig. 27.) Syntomis idda, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 79; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 105. 2 . Black-brown ; palpi, frons, tegulae, patagia, and mctathorax orange; pectus
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MYOrSYCHE. 51 Sect. II. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 from a point. A. Tegulie orange ; abdomen with dorsal orange stripe idda. B. Tegulai and abdomen blue-black '. victorina. C. Tegulae with white patches ; abdomen with white lines on Ist and 5th segments elachista. *47. Myopsyche idda. (Plate I. fig. 27.) Syntomis idda, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 79; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 105. 2 . Black-brown ; palpi, frons, tegulae, patagia, and mctathorax orange; pectus and legs orange and brown ; abdomen with dorsal, lateral, and ventral orange fascia) formed by conjoined triangular spots and not reaching extremity. Fore wing with large wedge- shaped hyaline patch in cell; an elongate patch below the cell extending almost to termen, and elongate spots above veins 3, 4, 6, and 7. Hind wing with the base of costa tinged with orange; a hyaline patch below the cell and between veins 2 and 5. Hab. Cameeoons, in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 2G millim. *48. Myopsyche victorina. omis victorina, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 78; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 105. 5. Head, thorax, and abdomen black sufi'used with metallic blue-green ; antenna) white at tips; white points at base of palpi and behind antennjc; 1st joint of tarsi and hind coxae white ; abdomen with some white at base of ventral sur- face ; wings hyaline, with the veins and margins nar- rowly black; the triangular Vig. 22.—Myopsyche vktorina, $. }. interspace between veins 2 and 3 and tornus black; veins 5 and 6 approximated, and the interspace between them almost entirely black; a large apical black patch. Plotz describes the male as having two narrow white bands on abdomen. Hab. Cameroons, in Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 30 millim. *49. Myopsyche elachista. (Plate I. fig. 28.) Syntomis elachista, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 375 (1893). 2 . Black ; frons, patagia, and pectus with white patches ; ab- domen with
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