. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MACROCNEME 317 b^. Legs black ; fore wing with the metallic blue hardly extendi ng beyond cell iadea. h. Hind tarsi with the fringe black. a^. Wings uniformly suffused with golden cupreous green cupreipennis. 6^ Wings with the metallic suffusion interrupted by a subbasal black band. tt^. Fore wing with the metallic blue extending nearly to termen. d'K Fore wing with the blue on outer half of wing entire and occupying the outer part of cell adonis. h^. Fore wing


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MACROCNEME 317 b^. Legs black ; fore wing with the metallic blue hardly extendi ng beyond cell iadea. h. Hind tarsi with the fringe black. a^. Wings uniformly suffused with golden cupreous green cupreipennis. 6^ Wings with the metallic suffusion interrupted by a subbasal black band. tt^. Fore wing with the metallic blue extending nearly to termen. d'K Fore wing with the blue on outer half of wing entire and occupying the outer part of cell adonis. h^. Fore wing with the metallic blue on the outer half broken up into streaks, and only a slight streak in upper end of cell cinyras. b^. Fore wing with the metallic blue or green hardly extending beyond cell chrysitis. 695. Macrocneme cyanea. (Plate XI. fig. 14.) Mastigocera cyanea, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 372 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat. 130. 5 . Black shot with brilliant metallic blue ; antennoD white at tips ; base of palpi, frons, tegiila), pectus behind, and coxaB with white points; hind legs with the fringes black, the last two joints of tarsi white ; abdomen with subdorsal and lateral white spots on 1st segment and lateral and sublateral spots on 2nd segment. Pore wing with the apical area not suffused with blue. Hind wing with white points at base below. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 2 $ , types. Exp. 42 millim. 696. Macrocneme lades. Sphinx lades, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 83. E (1776); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 129. Glaucopis leucosfigma, Perty, Del. Anim. Art. p. 158. pi. 31. f. 11 (1834) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 128. " Macrocneme ferrea, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 371 (1876); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. Black ; antennae white at tips : palpi at base white ; frons with two white points; shoulders, teguhc, pectus, coxa3 in front, and base of femora behind with white points, the fringe on terminal joints of tarsus white: abdomen suffused with golden green ; the 1st. P


Size: 2186px × 1143px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherlondonbritishmuseu