. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 204.âAntichloris panacea, (^. $ . Hind wing fuscous brown. d". Dull cupreous brown; shoulders with large crimson spots ; fora coxae with metallic blue patches ; abdomen shot with blue above. Hind wing dirty white, with terminal fuscous band expanding below vein 2. Type. notabilis. Hah. Costa Rica (Rogers), 2 c?, 2 $ , type, Godman-Salvin Coll Exj). 42 millim. Genus METHYSIA. Methijsia, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, p. 397 (1876) Proboscis fully d
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 204.âAntichloris panacea, (^. $ . Hind wing fuscous brown. d". Dull cupreous brown; shoulders with large crimson spots ; fora coxae with metallic blue patches ; abdomen shot with blue above. Hind wing dirty white, with terminal fuscous band expanding below vein 2. Type. notabilis. Hah. Costa Rica (Rogers), 2 c?, 2 $ , type, Godman-Salvin Coll Exj). 42 millim. Genus METHYSIA. Methijsia, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, p. 397 (1876) Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned ; antennae bipectinate, with moderate branches; tibiae with the spurs short; abdomen with the 2nd segment somewhat constricted, the terminal segment with lateral tufts. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle ;, 7,8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell; the area below submedian fold in male clothed on underside with smooth white scales, with an elongate patch of hairy scaling on medial part of vein 1. Hind wing narrow in male and aborted, the costal area to median nervure clothed with smooth white scales on upperside and the costa curled over ; cell h)ng ; veins 2 and 3 from a point before angle; 4 from 5 just before margin ; 6, 7 on a long stalk. 890. Methysia notabilis. Glaucppis notabilis, Wlk. i. 144 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. .36, pi. 7. f. 11 (1877); Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 148. Head and abdomen black ; thorax above except tegulas fulvous orange; thorax and abdo- men below, and parts of legs, white. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and mar- gins black; the inner area up to submedian fold black above, white below; blac£: streaks in interspaces of terminal area from vein 4 to costa, the streak in discal fold running to cell. Hind wing with the area from costa to median VOL. I. 2d'. Fig. 205,âMethjsia notabilis, S â. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have bee
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