. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 808 SYNTOMID^. "below cell near base and at middle. Fig. 139.—Syntomeida ipomew, (^. and beyond upper angle^ often absent, and two spots beyond lower angle. Hind wing with hyaline white patch below base of cell. Hah. U. S. A., Georgia, Florida; 2 J, 1 $, type ferox. Exp. 48 millim. 680, S3nitoineida epilais. Euchromia epilais, Wlk. i. 227 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 23, pi. 8. f. 5 ; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 43; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. Blue-black; antennae white at tips; sides of thorax and legs spotted with
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 808 SYNTOMID^. "below cell near base and at middle. Fig. 139.—Syntomeida ipomew, (^. and beyond upper angle^ often absent, and two spots beyond lower angle. Hind wing with hyaline white patch below base of cell. Hah. U. S. A., Georgia, Florida; 2 J, 1 $, type ferox. Exp. 48 millim. 680, S3nitoineida epilais. Euchromia epilais, Wlk. i. 227 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 23, pi. 8. f. 5 ; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 43; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 123. Blue-black; antennae white at tips; sides of thorax and legs spotted with white; abdomen with two dorsal white spots on 1 st segment with a point between them, followed by three lateral and two sublateral spots ; the last two segments deep crimson-red. Fore wing with white spot at base of costa; a spot below middle of cell and small spot in cell towards upper angle; two spots beyond upper angle and two betAveen veins 3 and 5. Hind wing -nith white spot beyond end of cell; the cilia white at middle of inner margin. Fore wing with vein 11 from the cell: 4, 5 approximated for some distance. Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), Yucatan (Gawner): British (Blancanecinx), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Honduras, type. Exj). 52 miUim. Larva, Dyar, J. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 72, pi. iii. f. 10, & Insect Life, ii. p. 360. Efig hemispherical, minutely punctured, base flat; laid in masses under leaves. Larva, mature. Head orange-red, palpi whitish, jaws dark; somites red, with shiny black warts in subdorsal space on somites 5-13; a subdorsal series ; a suprastigmatic series ; a stigmatic series behind spiracles; two subventral series; somites 2,3, 4 with one series only; the cervical spot and anal plate with row of black points; the subdorsal and stigmatic series on somites 3, 4, and the supra- stigmatic on 7-11, and the subdorsal on 12 & 13 with long pencils of fine black hair, the others with thin tufts of short hair; the subdorsal space on median somites
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