. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PACnYDOTA. 93 A. Fore wing grey-purple. a. Abdomen orange at base. ci}. Abdomen witlioiit black dorsal bands indea. 6'. Abdomen witli black bands sadiwa. h. Abdomen black at base albiceps, B. Fore wing orange. a. Abdomen with dorsal black patcli striata. I). Abdomen without dorsal black patch nervosa. ISol. Pachydota iodea. Phegopteraiodea,'\iAiX. Aussercur. Schmett. f. 432 (1855); Kirbj', Cat. Het. p. 207. Pseudapisfosia saduca, Druce, Biol. , ITet. ii. p. 381 (part.) Head and thorax black ; vertex
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PACnYDOTA. 93 A. Fore wing grey-purple. a. Abdomen orange at base. ci}. Abdomen witlioiit black dorsal bands indea. 6'. Abdomen witli black bands sadiwa. h. Abdomen black at base albiceps, B. Fore wing orange. a. Abdomen with dorsal black patcli striata. I). Abdomen without dorsal black patch nervosa. ISol. Pachydota iodea. Phegopteraiodea,'\iAiX. Aussercur. Schmett. f. 432 (1855); Kirbj', Cat. Het. p. 207. Pseudapisfosia saduca, Druce, Biol. , ITet. ii. p. 381 (part.) Head and thorax black ; vertex of head white; coxa-; orange ; abdomen orange, with dorsal series of black patches from 2nd segment diminishing to extremity, a lateral series of spots, the. Fig. 69.— Pachydota iodea, c?. f. ventral surface black. Fore wing grey-purple ; oblique olive-brown subbasal and anteraedial bands ; an oblique postmedial band ex- panding into a large discoidal patch and conjoined beyond end of cell to a band from vein 5 to inner margin ; a wedge-shaped band from costa before apex to below vein 4; an apical patch with a sinuous line from it to vein 3 ; a curved mark above torn us. Hind wing brown, the area in, below, and just beyond the cell semi- hyaline, the inner area orange. I/ab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 $, Godmau-Salvin Coll.; (Martin), 1 J , 1 $ . G2 millim. 1:352. Pachydota saduca. Pseudapisfosia saduca, Druce, A. M. N. IT. ((>) xv. \). 4G (1895), $ ; id. Biol. , Het. ii. p. 381, pi. 76. f. 2. 5 . H(!ad and thorax black ; vertex of head white ; coxic orange ; abdomen orange with black bands, the hair on dorsum from 2nd to 4th segment black, the ventral surface black. Fore wing greyish purple ; subbasal and antemediai oblique olive-brown bands ; two postmedial bands conjoined at lower end of cell, where the 2nd is angled outwards ; a sinuous band from costa before apex to tornus, excurved at middle and ex^iandiiig at costa and tornus; a termina
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