. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SPHECOSOMA. 159 patch on medial ])art of shaft; thorax yellow ; tegulsD edged with black ; patagia and metathorax striped with black ; abdomen fulvous yellow; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly dark. Pore wing with slight fulvous-yellow streaks on costa and inner margin. Hah. Be. Guiana, Demerara, type; Amazons, Para {Austen), 2 6 . Exji. 28 millim. B. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 sepai'ate at origin. a. Fore wing of male with thick fringe of long hair on vein 1 below; Lincl wing with fringe of hair on costa above ; bot
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SPHECOSOMA. 159 patch on medial ])art of shaft; thorax yellow ; tegulsD edged with black ; patagia and metathorax striped with black ; abdomen fulvous yellow; wings hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly dark. Pore wing with slight fulvous-yellow streaks on costa and inner margin. Hah. Be. Guiana, Demerara, type; Amazons, Para {Austen), 2 6 . Exji. 28 millim. B. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 sepai'ate at origin. a. Fore wing of male with thick fringe of long hair on vein 1 below; Lincl wing with fringe of hair on costa above ; both sexes with the cell long ; veins 2 and 4 from angle, 3 fi'ora 2near margin ; 5 obsolete. 313. Sphecosoma abnormis, n. sp. Head and thorax orange; antennas blackish at base and ex- tremities ; vertex of head black and leaden blue ; tegulaj and patagia black edged with orange ; thorax striped with black; abdomen ful- vous, the first two segments blackish above, the 1st with dorsal orange spot, the terminal segments with obscure silvery blue Fig. 71. dorsal bauds; wings hyaline, the Sphecosoma ahnormis, ^. \. yeins and margins narrowly black. Fore wing with slight subcostal orange streak, terminal band expanding towards apex. Hah. Lower Amazons, Massauary, 1 5 type, S in Coll. Staudinger. Exj). 30 millim. h. Fore wing of male without fringe of hair on vein ] ; hind wing with the lower part of cell very short, veins 2 and 4 on a long stalk. a^. Thorax black and yellow. «^. Abdomen banded yellow and black. a*. AntenniB with the medial part orange cocjnatum. P. Antenute wholly black mclissa. b-. Abdomen black beyond the peduncle. a^. Abdomen with three black streaks on 1st segment; fore wing without red streak on costa surrentum. P. Abdomen with black bands on basal segments ; fore wing with red streak on medial part of costa ecuachrum. b^. Thorax wholly black ; abdomen with the terminal segments black, with one or two yellow bands melanotum. 314. Sphecosoma cognatum. Paeudosphex
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