. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 422 STNTOMIDiE. with some yellow scales above frous ; tegul^ pale yellow; patagia and thorax dusky brown; pectus with yellow spots; legs dark brown, the coxae yellow, tarsi dusky ochreous; abdomen with the basal segment white, with yellow patches on lateral tubercles ; 2nd and 3rd segments dark brown, with dorsal and lateral yellow spots; terminal segments paler brown. Fore wing fulvous brown. Hind wing ochreous yellow, with ill-defined dark terminal band narrowing from apex. Hah. Cuba, Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 35-40 millim. 936.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 422 STNTOMIDiE. with some yellow scales above frous ; tegul^ pale yellow; patagia and thorax dusky brown; pectus with yellow spots; legs dark brown, the coxae yellow, tarsi dusky ochreous; abdomen with the basal segment white, with yellow patches on lateral tubercles ; 2nd and 3rd segments dark brown, with dorsal and lateral yellow spots; terminal segments paler brown. Fore wing fulvous brown. Hind wing ochreous yellow, with ill-defined dark terminal band narrowing from apex. Hah. Cuba, Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 35-40 millim. 936. Horama pretus. Sphinx -pretus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 175. E, F (1777); Kii-by, Cat. Het. p. 130. Zygcsna eunolphus, Fahr. Spec. Ins. ii., App. p. 505 (1787)_. Mastygocera vespina, Harris, Am. Journ. fc'ci. xssvi. p. 315 (1839); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 131. Pale reddish brown ; head and dilated part of antennse blackish; tegulae yellowish white; pectus blackish with patches of white; palpi below and coxae white ; legs with blackish bands at end of. Fig. 222.—Horama pretus, ^. \. femora and tibiae ; abdomen with the 1st segment yellowish white^ followed by blackish and whitish ventral and lateral bands ; the extremity blackish. Hind wing svith slight fuscous suffusion, the costal area yellowish. Bab. ; Thomas, 1 $ ; Vexezuela ; 2 J without locality, Exji. 38 millim. Genus EMPYREUMA. „ Type Empyreuma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 120 (1827) pugione. Proboscis fullj" developed ; palpi upturned; frons hairy ; antennte bipectinate, with moderate branches; thorax clothed with woolly hair; tibise with the spurs short; abdomen wirh lateral tufts on termiiial segments, those on anal segment long. Fore wing long and narrow; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 6 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell very long; veins 2 and 4 from angle ; 3 from 2 just before termen; 5 curved from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from
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