. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NEAXIA. 63 *1231 J. Neaxia gnosia. Neaxia gnosia, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 211 (1906). Hind wing of male with the costa very strongly lobed ; veins 2 and 5 from angle of cell. d . Head and thorax chrome-yellow; palpi tinged with scarlet above ; frons with scarlet bar; neck with scarlet ring; patagia with brownish patches edged with scarlet; pro-, meso-, and meta- thorax with paired scarlet spots; pectus crimson in front; legs mostly white: abdomen dorsally crimson, yellow at extremity, the ventral surface white. Fo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. NEAXIA. 63 *1231 J. Neaxia gnosia. Neaxia gnosia, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 211 (1906). Hind wing of male with the costa very strongly lobed ; veins 2 and 5 from angle of cell. d . Head and thorax chrome-yellow; palpi tinged with scarlet above ; frons with scarlet bar; neck with scarlet ring; patagia with brownish patches edged with scarlet; pro-, meso-, and meta- thorax with paired scarlet spots; pectus crimson in front; legs mostly white: abdomen dorsally crimson, yellow at extremity, the ventral surface white. Fore wing chrome-yellow ; a purple fuscous patch on middle of inner margin extending to middle of cell, edged. Fig. 15.—Neaxia gnosia, <^ . A. with scarlet and with curved scarlet streak in submedian fold ; some small scarlet annuli on basal area; a small brown annulus edfed with reddish in end of cell and four beyond the cell; a post- medial series of similar spots with the three towards costa larger and more elongate; a subterminal series of similar small annuli. Hind wing white suffused with crimson except on costal area, the cilia yellow. Jiab. Br. Guiana, Omai, type t J in Nat. Mus. Exp. 38 millim. *1231 e. Neaxia cennedyi. (Plate XLIV. fig. 10.) Neaxia kennedyi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 269 (1909). cJ. Head and thorax yellow, the dorsum of thorax and upper edge of patagia suffused with red-brown and crimson ; palpi at tips and antennae red-brown ; frons with crimson bars at middle and between antennae; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae suffused with brown ; abdomen crimson, the extremity and ventral surface white. Fore wing yellow; a brown spot edged with crim- son at base of cell and subbasal spots in and below the cell and above inner margin; the medial area with large patch with irregularly waved edge from below costa to terminal part of inner margin, edged with crimson and the veins on it streaked with crimson ; a small pale red-brown spot in u
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