. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 330 srNTOMID^. 726. Chrysocale principalis. Eupyra prmcipalis, Wlk. xxxi. 97 (1864); Druce, Biol. Centr. -Am., Het. i. p. 43, pi. 70. f. 27; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 124. Head and thorax black; base of palpi, frons, vertex of head, tegnloe, patagia, sides of thorax, and coxae with paired white spots; some metallic green and cupreous on vertex of thorax; abdomen black, with white dorsal and subdorsal spots on 1st segment and a lateral series; dorsal metallic green bands becoming cupreous to- wards extremity ; a ventral series of whit
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 330 srNTOMID^. 726. Chrysocale principalis. Eupyra prmcipalis, Wlk. xxxi. 97 (1864); Druce, Biol. Centr. -Am., Het. i. p. 43, pi. 70. f. 27; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 124. Head and thorax black; base of palpi, frons, vertex of head, tegnloe, patagia, sides of thorax, and coxae with paired white spots; some metallic green and cupreous on vertex of thorax; abdomen black, with white dorsal and subdorsal spots on 1st segment and a lateral series; dorsal metallic green bands becoming cupreous to- wards extremity ; a ventral series of white patches ; wings Fig. — Chrysocale principalis, J. \. Fore wing with two white spots at base ; a large peacock-green patch on basal area; a hyaline white spot in cell and another below it ; a cupreous green patch from end of cell to tornus, with a streak from it on inner margin towards base ; a hyaline spot in upper angle of cell and four spots in the interspaces beyond the cell; an apical cupreous green patch formed by streaks between the veins. Hind wing shot with blue, and with a metallic green patch on middle of outer area ; a wedge-shaped hyaline spot below the cell and a double spot beyond it. Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca, type, Amecameca (Godman), Jalisco (Schumann, BicJianlson), Guerrero (Smith) ; Guatemala (Rodriguez). Godman-Salvin Coll. Kvp. 50 millim. *727. Chrysocale regalis. Glaucopis regalis, Boisd. Spec. Geu. Lep. i. pi. 16. f. 3 (1836); Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 571 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 124. S . Metallic golden green ; head, thorax, and abdomen with the long hair black ; frons and base of coxae with white points; fore coxae with white patches, Fore wing with white point at base ; some cupreous suffusion below the cell; a triangular black patch with hyaline point on it; a point in upper end of cell and a blackish patch beyond the cell, with hyaline points above veins 3, 4, and 6. Hind wing with small hyaline spot on black ground below the cel
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