. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 268 ^ STNTOMID^. below the cell extending into the interspaces between veins 2 and 5 and dentate towards outer margin; a short streak below vein 6 and lunule above it. Hind wing hyaline, the veins dark; the inner area black with some orange at base; a terminal black band expanding towards costa and tornus. Hah. Mexico, Yera Cruz Fig. 121.—Psifopleura vitiata, r?. \. (Salle), type, Yucatan (Gau- mer); Guatemala, Yera Paz, V, de Atitlan (Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll. Exj). 30 millim. *58Jr. Psilopleura polia. (Plate X. fig. 8.)
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 268 ^ STNTOMID^. below the cell extending into the interspaces between veins 2 and 5 and dentate towards outer margin; a short streak below vein 6 and lunule above it. Hind wing hyaline, the veins dark; the inner area black with some orange at base; a terminal black band expanding towards costa and tornus. Hah. Mexico, Yera Cruz Fig. 121.—Psifopleura vitiata, r?. \. (Salle), type, Yucatan (Gau- mer); Guatemala, Yera Paz, V, de Atitlan (Champion), Godman-Salvin Coll. Exj). 30 millim. *58Jr. Psilopleura polia. (Plate X. fig. 8.) Psilopleura polia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 407 (1898). d . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed \\ ith grey; palpi white at base; vertex of thorax and patagia streaked with grey ; abdomen with lateral orange fascise formed of somewhat triangular patches diminishing towards extremity. Fore wing brown and grey, with two hyaline streaks in end of cell; a hyaline fascia below the cell above and below submedian fold ; a series of elongate patches between veins 2 and 5, the one above vein 3 extending nearly to termen, and lunulate marks above veins 5 and 6, with blackish streaks beyond them; the inner area blackish except towards tornue. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins grey- brown, the inner margin slightly yellowish. Ifab. J3RAZIL, Espiritu Santo, 2 d, type f in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 38 millim. 585. Psilopleura sanguipuncta, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 6.) Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown; shoulders and patagia with crimson spots. Fore wing dark brown, the veins darker; a wedge-shaped semihyaline patch in cell and elongate patch below the cell ; a band beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7. Hind wing semihyaline ; the veins blackish ; the terminal area brown, expanding on inner area and emitting a streak to the base. Hab. Bkazil, Rio Grande do Sul, 1 d type. Exjy. 30 millim. Genus RHYNCHOPYGA. Type. Ehynchopyga, Feld. Eeis. Nov. p. 8 (1874), non descr ichneumonea. Probosci
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