. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. If, *1205 e. Idalus melauopasta. Idalus melanopasta, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 22G (1907). Hind wing of male with the costa highly arched, dilated and somewhat produced at apex, a small patch of brown androconia on upperside well beyond lower angle of cell; vein 8 from middle of cell. d. Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with greyish ; palpi at base white, crimson above; antennae with the basal joint erinison behind, the tips whitish ; neck with crimson^ ring; pectus and legs white, the fore ti
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. If, *1205 e. Idalus melauopasta. Idalus melanopasta, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 22G (1907). Hind wing of male with the costa highly arched, dilated and somewhat produced at apex, a small patch of brown androconia on upperside well beyond lower angle of cell; vein 8 from middle of cell. d. Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with greyish ; palpi at base white, crimson above; antennae with the basal joint erinison behind, the tips whitish ; neck with crimson^ ring; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae crimson on inner side; abdomen crimson with two dorsal white points at base, the extremity orange with the anal tuft at tip and the ventral surface white. Fore wing greyish suffused with red-brown especially at base and below costa, the*costal edge white with slight crimson streak below it at base, a slight crimson mark at base of inner margin ; the medial area irrorated with black spots in the interspaces except towards costa. Fig. 4.—Idalus melanopasta, J. J. and inner margin; the postmedial area with diffused crimson stri;e and with series of blackish points above veins 7, (i, 5; a terminal yellow band slightly defined by crimson on inner side, narrowing to points at apex and tornus and its inner edge angled outwards to near termen at vein 5, a series of minute blackish streaks on the extremities of the veins. Hind wing with the costal half oehreous white with patch of brown androconia beyond lower angle of cell, the inner half erinison with the cilia oehreous white, the cilia of inner margin white; the underside white with the inner half, except inner margin, and terminal area tinged with crimson. II,ih. Fk. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type f cJ in (/oil. Dognin. Kx]i. 1 milliin. *1205/. Idalus laurentia. (Plate XLIII. fig. 4-.) Idalue laurentia, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 207 (1900). ' of male bipectinate; hind wing with the costal area greatly di
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