. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. APOCEREA.—EFCEKEOX. 315 Genus APOCEREA. Type. Apocerea, Dyar, Fr. Nat, Mus. xxix. p, 174 (1905) sobria. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head ; antennae of male bipectinate ; tibiae with the spurs short; abdomen with some rough hair at base. Fore winy with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from ang-le of cell; (3, 7 shortly stalked. In key differs from Callopepla in the abdomen not having lateral
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. APOCEREA.—EFCEKEOX. 315 Genus APOCEREA. Type. Apocerea, Dyar, Fr. Nat, Mus. xxix. p, 174 (1905) sobria. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head ; antennae of male bipectinate ; tibiae with the spurs short; abdomen with some rough hair at base. Fore winy with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from ang-le of cell; (3, 7 shortly stalked. In key differs from Callopepla in the abdomen not having lateral tubercles at base ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 shortly stalked. *1071/. Apocerea sobria. Apocerea sobria, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 193 (1905.) d. Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with fuscous; back of bead yellowish; abdomen black-brown with yellow subdorsal bands on three terminal segments and tbe anal tuft yellow. Fore wing dirty whitish tinged with fuscous especially on postmedial area; tbe veins with dark streaks; some blackish at base of costa, below cell, and on inner margin ; antemedial line bent inwards and expanding to costa, then oblique, interrupted, slightly dentate;. Fig. 48.—Apocerea sobria, J. j. a diffused medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique, angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; pale spots above bases of veins 6, 4, 3; post- medial line indistinct, waved, incurved between veins 6 and 4 and ending at tornus, with slight dark streak before it above vein 6; a subterminal series of short streaks between apex and vein 4. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area rather paler. Hub. Pe. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type t 6 in Nat. Mus. JExp. 30 millim. *1073«. Eucereon albitorna. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) Eucereon albitorna, Dog-n. Het. Nouv. Am. Sud, v. p. 8 (1912). d. Head and tegulse brown mixed with greyish ochreous; antenme dark brown; thorax brown with grey streaks on patagia and a pai
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