. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. NEPHELISTIS. 251 costa; subterminal Hue represented by a series of white undula- tions on brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and escurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, whitish towards base and inner margin ; the underside j-ellowish white, the costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Guatemala, Las Mercedes (^Champion), 1 c? type, Godman- Salvin Coll. Exjj. 34 millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate with very
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. NEPHELISTIS. 251 costa; subterminal Hue represented by a series of white undula- tions on brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and escurved at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, whitish towards base and inner margin ; the underside j-ellowish white, the costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Guatemala, Las Mercedes (^Champion), 1 c? type, Godman- Salvin Coll. Exjj. 34 millim. Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate with very short branches, the apes ciliated ; mid tibiae dilated, fringed with very long hair and with expansible tuft of long yellow hair; underside of both wings mostly clothed with bright ochreous androconia and hair to beyond middle. A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below vein 4 ... clauda. B. Fore wing with the postmedial line obliquely curved. a. Head and tegulse rufous furva. b. Head and tegulte purplish brown differens. 1483. Nephelistis clauda. Consermla clauda, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894); Druce, Biol. , Het. ii, p. 475. Tceniocompa veUerea, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 484 (part.), nee Schaus. Head and thorax dark brown tinged with grey ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen dark grey-brown. Fore wing dark brown suffused with purplish grey and irrorated with whitish ; traces of a waved whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct oblique waved autemedial line; the medial area suffused with black-brown from submedian nervure to vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey, the former round ; post- medial line grey slightly defined by blackish on inner side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and excurved at median. Fig. 47.—Nephelistis clauda, (S. \. nervules ; subterminal line represented by a very obscure series of whitish marks on diffused blackish patches, slightly angl
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