. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. BOMnlLIODES. 183 dorsal and lateral series of small l)lue spots, lateral segmental scarlet lines except on 1st segment, the anal tuft scarlet; a sub- lateral scries of white spots conjoined into a band on 3rd segment and becoming reddish towards extremity ; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins broadly, black, the terminal band expanding towards apex and above tornus of each wing. Fore wing with discoidal black lunule. Hab. Venezuela, Area. Exp. 36 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 371. Bombiliodes IsBimus. Glaucopis Icsnmis, Wlk
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. BOMnlLIODES. 183 dorsal and lateral series of small l)lue spots, lateral segmental scarlet lines except on 1st segment, the anal tuft scarlet; a sub- lateral scries of white spots conjoined into a band on 3rd segment and becoming reddish towards extremity ; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins broadly, black, the terminal band expanding towards apex and above tornus of each wing. Fore wing with discoidal black lunule. Hab. Venezuela, Area. Exp. 36 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 371. Bombiliodes IsBimus. Glaucopis Icsnmis, Wlk. i. 154 (1854); Butl. III. Het. i. p. 28, pi. 12. f. 8 Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 136. 6. Head and thorax black; antennte white at tips ; shoulders with white spots; vertex of head and teguloe with patches of metallic blue ; fore coxaj white ; abdomen black, with the last three segments orange-red ; sub- dorsal blue patches on the black segments ; wings Fig. SC.—Bombiliodcs Iceimus, ^. \. hyaline, the veins, and margins broadly, black. Fore wing with black discocellular patch; the terminal band expanding evenly to apex. Hind wing with black discocellular band ; the terminal band very broad below vein 2, along which it is angled inwards to join the discocellular band, and expanding to apex. 2 . Fore coxa) black; abdomen of one specimen with two black dorsal patches on the red segments, in the larger specimen these segments are fulvous instead of red. Bab. Ekazil, Hio Janeiro, 1 d" 2 $ . ^., d 42, $ 42-52 millim. *372. Bombiliodes simplex. (Plate VII. fig. 21.) Gt/mnelia simplex, Wlk. vii. 1603 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 136. 2 . Black; vertex of head and tegulce with patches of metallic blue p^-i'^a ; spots on shoulders, sides of thorax, and coxoc white; abdomen with lateral series of blue spots and slight dorsal blue points towards extremity ; lateral segmental orange-red lines on last five segments, and the terminal segment orange-red ; a sub- lateral series of white spo
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