. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 42G 1993. Turuptiana obliqua. Turiiptiana ohliqua, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 19 (1869); Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 235, 590. Sallwa ochrosier7ia,'Fe\d. Eeis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 10(1874); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 235. Robinsonia perfect a, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 60 (1884); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 235. Head white ; palpi and antennas dark brown ; tegulae and tlioras dark brown ; patagia white, edged with brown above; pectus orange ; tibiae and tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen orange, with black-browu. Fig. 173. — Turuptiana obliqua, (^. \. se
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 42G 1993. Turuptiana obliqua. Turiiptiana ohliqua, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 19 (1869); Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 235, 590. Sallwa ochrosier7ia,'Fe\d. Eeis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 10(1874); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 235. Robinsonia perfect a, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 60 (1884); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 235. Head white ; palpi and antennas dark brown ; tegulae and tlioras dark brown ; patagia white, edged with brown above; pectus orange ; tibiae and tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen orange, with black-browu. Fig. 173. — Turuptiana obliqua, (^. \. segmental lines above and triangular dorsal patch on basal segments ; wings white. Fore wing with brown costal fascia narrowing to a point just before apex; an oblique band from or from just below middle of costal fascia, where it joins a fascia on inner margin from close to base ; cilia usually brown or brown at middle. Hind wing with the inner area more or less completely dark brown. Uah. Mexico, 1 S type, Jalapa (Tmjillo, Hoege), 3 i^ , 4 5 type, Coatepec (iJrooyts), 1 d", Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp., S 48, $ 58 millim. 1994. Turuptiana neurophylla. Ambryllis neurophylla, Wlk. vii. 1710 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Hrt. p. 217. Ecpanthcria hebona, Dognin, Le Naturaliste, 1891, p. 125; id. Lep. Loja, p. 87, pi. 9. ff. 1, 2. S. Head and thorax grey-white; palpi, frons, and antennae black ; tegulae edged with orange, on inner side with black ; patagia edged with orange on outer side, with black on inner ; thorax with dorsal black stripe, and some orange hair on metathorax ; pectus black and orange ; legs black with some grey hair ; abdomen black, with lateral stripes and the anal tuft orange, the ventral surface obscurely banded with grey. Fore wing with the ground-colour white ; an elliptical orange-brown patch below cell and streaks on inner margin, in cell, and above vein 2; triangular spots beyond the cell between veins 3 and 6 and a terminal series in the inter- spaces ; an orang
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