. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 270 XOCTUIDJi:. with brown ; a waved dark terminal line; cilia ochreous white with a bi'own line through them and brown tips ; the underside with the costa and terminal area irrorated with brown. Hah. EcuADOK, Sarayacu {Buclcley), type t S in Coll. Druce; Peru (Simons), 1 $ , Exjy. 58 millim. Sect. II. Anteiiiiic of female almost simple. 3882. Stauropides persimilis, n. n. Anfackara superba, Druce, A. M. N. H. (G) xiii. p. 301 (1894), $ ; id. Biol. , Het. ii. p. 484, pi. 94. f. 6. Head and thorax whitish tinged with p
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 270 XOCTUIDJi:. with brown ; a waved dark terminal line; cilia ochreous white with a bi'own line through them and brown tips ; the underside with the costa and terminal area irrorated with brown. Hah. EcuADOK, Sarayacu {Buclcley), type t S in Coll. Druce; Peru (Simons), 1 $ , Exjy. 58 millim. Sect. II. Anteiiiiic of female almost simple. 3882. Stauropides persimilis, n. n. Anfackara superba, Druce, A. M. N. H. (G) xiii. p. 301 (1894), $ ; id. Biol. , Het. ii. p. 484, pi. 94. f. 6. Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale blue-green, the edges of tegulee and patagia and the metathorax with some rufous and a few black scales ; palpi ochreous white, blackish above ; pectus and legs ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with dark brown and with the crests on basal segments rufous. Fore wing very pale blue-green ; a vei y oblique black streak from base of costa to median uervure and another on and above inner margin before the antemedial line which is represented by black points on costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; orbicular with very faint white annulus except on outer side where it is defined bv black and with a white and black bar below it from. Fig. 7-.— Staurojndcspersimilis, '^ cell to submedian fold, a rufous band beyond them from costa to submedian fold, with waved inner edge towards costa and below vein 5 confluent with the rufous terminal area ; reniform rufous defined by black on inner side, undefined on outer; a blackish fascia below vein 2 from the medial line to termen ; postmedial line represented by a brown striga from costa, then almost to vein G, indistinct and dentate to submedian fold, then almost obsolete; an oblique dark streak from termen below vein 4 to vein 2 with pale green patch beyond it; a series of dark strias just before termen. Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen irrorated with red-brown; the under
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