. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 656 AGARISTIDJ^. ? Orthia nexa, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 543 (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 32. Othria amazonica. Westw. Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. (2) i. p, 202 (1877), Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 32. Black-brown ; fore coxre and femora at sides orange; wings slightly shot with blue. Pore wing with oblique orange band from. Fig. 290.— Othria augias, (^. \. just below costa beyond middle to just above tornus, with somewhat irregular edges and varying somewhat in shap
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 656 AGARISTIDJ^. ? Orthia nexa, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 543 (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 32. Othria amazonica. Westw. Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. (2) i. p, 202 (1877), Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 32. Black-brown ; fore coxre and femora at sides orange; wings slightly shot with blue. Pore wing with oblique orange band from. Fig. 290.— Othria augias, (^. \. just below costa beyond middle to just above tornus, with somewhat irregular edges and varying somewhat in shape. Nab. Amazons, Pebas, 1 $ ; Bolivia, Suapi (Garlepp), 1 c? . }). 50-56 millim. Type f $ amazonica in Mus. Oxon. 0. nexa, Boisd., may be a variety of this species ; fore wing with the band pale yellow, the costa irrorated with grey on underside. Genus SEIROCASTNIA. Type. Seirocastnia, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 175 (186G) tribuna. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed in front with long hair, the 3rd joint minute and clothed with rough hai)'; frons tufted with hair and with small truncate prominence with slight raised riui; tibia? fringed with rough hair. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from or beyond end of areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Abdomen yellow at sides. a. Hind wing with the costa yellow at base. a}. Hind wing with the inner margin yellow amalthea. bK Hind wing with the black extending along inner margin nearly to base panamensis. b. Hind wing with the costa black to base. a^. Abdomen with narrow dorsal black stripe; hind wing with the costa and inner margin narrowly black volvpia. b^. Abdomen with broad dorsal black stripe ; hind wing with the costa and inner margin broadly black, a^. Fore wing with orange fa
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