. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 653 208. Diamuna severa. Phakena severa, Cram. Tap. Exot. iv. p. 235, pi. 398, L (1782). $ . Deep red-brown; pectus and mid and hind femora and tibial orange ; abdomen black. Fore wing slightly irrorated with silvery blue : traces of an antemedial erect line below the cell; the postmedial line rather indistinct, double, defined by bluish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing deep orange, with black terminal band with curved inner edge. Underside ot fore wing with orange postmedial baud from cost
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 653 208. Diamuna severa. Phakena severa, Cram. Tap. Exot. iv. p. 235, pi. 398, L (1782). $ . Deep red-brown; pectus and mid and hind femora and tibial orange ; abdomen black. Fore wing slightly irrorated with silvery blue : traces of an antemedial erect line below the cell; the postmedial line rather indistinct, double, defined by bluish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing deep orange, with black terminal band with curved inner edge. Underside ot fore wing with orange postmedial baud from costa to below vein 2, attenuate at extremities. Hah. Surinam ; Amazons, 11. Jutahi {Trail), 1 $. Exp. 50 raillim. *209. Diamuna hesperina. Darcefa hesperina, Aussereur. Schmett. p. 13, f. ."j24 (18r>0;. 2 . Head and thorax deep chocolate-brown ; antennao blackish ; mid and hind femora and tibiae fringed with orange hair; abdomen black-brown. Fore wing deep chocolate, irrorated with blue-white scales on basal inner area, on costal area before the postmedial line, aud on terminal area; a waved double pale-brown almost medial line, almost obsolete except from cell to inner margin ; a large indistinct reniform spot; a double grey-brown postmedial line strongly excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Hind wing orange ; a broad black-brown terminal band running inwards on costa to before middle and on inner margin to base on upperside and to before middle on underside; a diffused black patch some- times present below middle of cell. Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina, Coll. Staudinger. 'j). 50 millim. 210. Diamuna proserpina. Phalfsna-Nodua proserpina. Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 239, pi. 399, I (1782). Aussereur. SL-limett. tf. ;), 52() (1850). Darceta, hesperina, Fig. 2>^7.— Diamuna proserpina (^ . Deep red-brown ; pectus and legs with some fulvous liair : a])domen black. Fore wing irrorated with blue-white ; an oblique medial olive-brown
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