. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NERITOS. 1(1!) 1 .*>! 6 c. Neritos pliaoplaga. V, ritos plmopUiga, Kmpsn. \. M. N. II. (7) xv. p. I 15 (1905). Antenna; of male with bristles anil cilia ; fore wing with veins 10. 11 stalked, the fovea elongate; hind wing with the eosta moderately lobed. (S . Head yellow; frons brown ; thorax dark brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore coxa; yellow in front ; abdomen crimson, the anal tuft yellow, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with the basal area purple-brown from one-third of eosta to termen above. Fig. 39. Nt rit
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NERITOS. 1(1!) 1 .*>! 6 c. Neritos pliaoplaga. V, ritos plmopUiga, Kmpsn. \. M. N. II. (7) xv. p. I 15 (1905). Antenna; of male with bristles anil cilia ; fore wing with veins 10. 11 stalked, the fovea elongate; hind wing with the eosta moderately lobed. (S . Head yellow; frons brown ; thorax dark brown ; pectus and legs white, the fore coxa; yellow in front ; abdomen crimson, the anal tuft yellow, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with the basal area purple-brown from one-third of eosta to termen above. Fig. 39. Nt ritos phseoplaga. tornus. it- outer sinuous and angled at lower angle of cell and n :>. a yellow spot edged with scarlet on inner margin before middle vein .), a \eiiow simh eugtu niui mi mini maigui ..mm. middle: apical area yellow with roun led purple-brown subapical patch with scarlet streak on eosta above it and hidentate outer edge. Hind wing crimson with a fuscous patch on middle of termen. §. Fore wing with the subapical patch joined to the brown area by an oblique suhterminal bar. Rah. Fr. Guiaxa, St. Laurent Maroni (Sclunts), 1 6 type, type V in Exp. 22 millim. *1546 d. Neritos drucei. Neritos drucei, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 294 (1909), <& xviii. pi. 1, f. 8. <$ . Head and thorax deep crimson slightly mixed with brown; 1st joint of palpi white in front: abdomen greyish, dorsally suffused with crimson except towards extremity: pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing deep crimson slightly tinged with brown ; a broad oblique semihyaline yellow hand from eosta beyond middle to termen between veins 4 and 2 ; cilia yellow at tips from below apex to the hand. Hind winy' yellow, the inner area and termen slightly tinged with crimson ; the underside with the eosta suffused with crimson. Hah. Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, in Coll. Dognin; Si kin \m. Maroewym Valley, AroewarwarCreek ( Klages), type in Coll. Rothschild. Ex
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