. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. AGTRTA. PHAEA. 473 strongly incurved below cell, and the last dentate; a semihyaline white patch beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7, irrorated with fuscous. Hind wing suffused with brilliant blue; a hyaliue fascia in, below, and beyond lower angle of cell. Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catharina, I S type. Exp. 36 millim. Genus PHARA. Type. Phara, Wlk. ii. 521 (1854) trivittata. Olina, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het p. 5 (18G0) Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, downcurved,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. AGTRTA. PHAEA. 473 strongly incurved below cell, and the last dentate; a semihyaline white patch beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7, irrorated with fuscous. Hind wing suffused with brilliant blue; a hyaliue fascia in, below, and beyond lower angle of cell. Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catharina, I S type. Exp. 36 millim. Genus PHARA. Type. Phara, Wlk. ii. 521 (1854) trivittata. Olina, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het p. 5 (18G0) Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, downcurved, extending about the length of head ; anteni se bipeclinate, with moderate brandies dilated at extremity and ending in a bristle ; tibiuo with the spurs short. Fore wing long and moderately broad ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 Irom angle of cell, which is very long; 6, 7 Irom upper angle, Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the tornus truncate and fringed with long 1047. Phara Ecdcmus flavicosta, Aussereur. Schmett. f. 421 (1855); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 139. cf. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; shoulders with yellow fascia?; the subterininal seg- ment ot abdomen with yellow band incomplete dorsally. Eore wing luscous brown, with the veins black; a yellow costal fascia extending to three-fourths from base; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing F\g. 2b^.—Phara flavicosta, (S. \. with the basal two-thirds hyaline with black veins, the outer third black ; the long hair at tornus brown. Hah. Brazil, Bio Grande do Sul. Exp. 24 millim. In Coll. Schaus. Sect. II. Hind wing of male with the tornus normal. A. Hind wing with wedge-shaped white streak below middle of costa on underside trivittata. B. Hind wing with white streak on costa from base to middle on underside nyctemeroides. 1048. Phara trivittata. Dioptis trivittata, Wlk. ii. 322 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het
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