. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELiEOGNATHA. 375 the basal crest with black mixed. Fore wing white irrorated and suffused with chocolate-brown, the basal area rather whiter ; ante- medial line indistinctly double, blackish, curved, waved ; orbicular a round whitish spot with point of raised black scales in centre ; the reniform represented by two obliquely placed points of raised black scales; postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then. Fig. 1-il.—ElcBognatha melanosticta, (^. \. minutely waved, oblique to vein 4, then very oblique inwardly
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ELiEOGNATHA. 375 the basal crest with black mixed. Fore wing white irrorated and suffused with chocolate-brown, the basal area rather whiter ; ante- medial line indistinctly double, blackish, curved, waved ; orbicular a round whitish spot with point of raised black scales in centre ; the reniform represented by two obliquely placed points of raised black scales; postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then. Fig. 1-il.—ElcBognatha melanosticta, (^. \. minutely waved, oblique to vein 4, then very oblique inwardly to vein 1 before middle and bent outwards to inner margin ; post- medial line whitish defined on inner side by brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at discal fold and bent inwards below vein 3, then oblique to tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing semihyaline whitish tinged with brown especially in female, the cilia whiter. Ab. 1. Eore wing with the medial area below the cell suffused with fuscous and bluish green, a white point with black annuliis defined by white except below above submedian fold. Ab. 2. Similar but with black medial point with white annulus above submedian fold. Ab. 3. Fore wing with the basal area, the outer edge of ante- medial line to submedian fold and a fascia below the cell extending to postmedial line variegated with yellowish white and slightly tinged with green. Ab. 4. Thorax with some bright yellow at tips of patagia and extremity of metathorax; fore wing with yellow and greenish streak above vein 1, the antemedial line with some greenish and yellow on each side to median nervure, then an obliquely curved yellow fascia to postmedial line at vein 1. Eah. CosTA EicA, La Florida, Sixola K. (Schaus), 1 § ; Colombia, Popayan; Fr. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni ; Peru, La Oroya [Ockenden), S. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 c? , E^y. 34 millim. Type f in Coll. Druce. *6697. Elaeognatha cacaonis. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 10.)
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