. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. VIZAGA. 567 wing pale red, the inner area white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown; hind wing with the costal half pale red irrorated with brown, the inner halt' white. Hah. Br. N. Guinev, Dinawa {Pratt), type f $ in Coll. Bethunc- Baker, Mt. Kebea. A>_^j. 42 millim. Genus VIZAGA. ^^p^ Vizaga, Swiiih. A. M. N. IL (1) vii. p. 491 (1901) cyanea. Parelydna, , Nov. Zuol. xiii. p. 2il (190(i) vdrahilis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vert
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. VIZAGA. 567 wing pale red, the inner area white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown; hind wing with the costal half pale red irrorated with brown, the inner halt' white. Hah. Br. N. Guinev, Dinawa {Pratt), type f $ in Coll. Bethunc- Baker, Mt. Kebea. A>_^j. 42 millim. Genus VIZAGA. ^^p^ Vizaga, Swiiih. A. M. N. IL (1) vii. p. 491 (1901) cyanea. Parelydna, , Nov. Zuol. xiii. p. 2il (190(i) vdrahilis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and ratiier slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round; antenn.'B of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; tibite slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the a])ex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a rather long areole ; 11 from cell ; male with two depressed grooves in end of cell whicli is rounded at extremity. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed from above angle of cell; C>, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the terminal area not suffused with red and with white streaks in the interspaces cyanea. B. Fore wing with the terminal area suffused with red and without white streaks in the interspaces . mirabUls. 6972, Vizaga cyanea. Ophiusa cyanea, Snell. Tijd. v. Eut. xxiv. p. 129, pi. 14. f. 2 (1881). Head white ; palpi blue-black with some white scales, the 1st joint white above and below, the extremity of 2iid joint white ; antenn;o black ; thorax fulvous yellow ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi blue ringed with white; abdomen cobalt-blue (fading to pale blood-red) with white segmental lines, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing
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