. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TRACHEA. 215 traceable; reniform pale rufous with some black scales on edges, somewhat constricted at middle ; medial line represented by double black strife from costa and a faint waved line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line indistinctly double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to short black streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved; postmedial area with some rufous points on the black costal patch and small black spot in submedian fold; subterminal
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TRACHEA. 215 traceable; reniform pale rufous with some black scales on edges, somewhat constricted at middle ; medial line represented by double black strife from costa and a faint waved line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line indistinctly double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to short black streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved; postmedial area with some rufous points on the black costal patch and small black spot in submedian fold; subterminal line verj^ indistinct, defined on inner side by some black points and slight dentate dark marks and with slight dark streaks beyond it on the veins ; a fine. Fig. 30.— Trachea xylopUla, J . \. waved black terminal line with slight dentate marks in the inter- spaces ; cilia with a slight pale line at base. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area red-brown, the inner margin brown with slight black marks towards tornus; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight waved antemedial line from costa to discal fold, black lunule at upper angle of cell, irregularly crenulate postmedial line, and diffused waved sub- terminal line. $ . Hind wing wholly suffused with brown. Hah. Guatemala, Pantaleon {Champion), 1 c?, Cero Zunil (^Champion), 1 $; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), '2 S, Godman- Salvin Coll.; Yeneztjela {Dyson), 1 $ tj'pe. Exp. 34-40 millim. 2992. Trachea lacruma. (Plate CXlll. fig. 23.) Alibama lacruma, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 229 (1894). cj. Head and thorax red-brown largely mixed with black and a few white scales; palpi black at sides, grey in front; frons with lateral black bars ; tegular with diffused black line near tips ; patagia with black upper edge ; pectus and legs rufous, the tarsi black ringed with rufous; abdomen rufous suffused with fuscous. Fore wing rufous almost wholly suffused with black-brown to postmed
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