. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 480 SYNTOMID^. to below lower angle, with three spots beyond the cell and three between them and inner margin; three S2)3t3 below costa before. Fig. 2G5.—Keacerea maculosa, 5. \. apex, and a terminal series. Hind wing whitish, with the inner and terminal areas fnscous black. Hah. Amazjns, Para {Bates), 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 1060. Neacerea pusilla. (Plate XVI. fig. 23.) ? Sphinx dares. Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 48. F (1775); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 175. Acridopsis pusilla, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 44; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 16
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 480 SYNTOMID^. to below lower angle, with three spots beyond the cell and three between them and inner margin; three S2)3t3 below costa before. Fig. 2G5.—Keacerea maculosa, 5. \. apex, and a terminal series. Hind wing whitish, with the inner and terminal areas fnscous black. Hah. Amazjns, Para {Bates), 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 1060. Neacerea pusilla. (Plate XVI. fig. 23.) ? Sphinx dares. Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 48. F (1775); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 175. Acridopsis pusilla, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 44; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. 5 . Head and thorax grey marked with blackish; back of head with two crimson spots; abdomen black, the ventral surface crimson to near extremity. Fore wing violaceous grey, tinged in parts with pale brown ; some black marks at base; an antemedial spot on costa and two small spots in submedian interspace; a spot in middle of cell and medial points above and below vein 1; two spots in end of cell and a spot below angle ; a series of spots just beyond the cell, becoming short streaks beyond lower angle and bent inwards below vein 2 ; a maculate baud from costa before apex to vein 5 ; a terminal series of spots, the spot above vein 3 elongate. Hind wing hyaline, with the terminal area broadly fuscous. Hah. Amazons, R. Javary {Trail), 1 $ type. Exp. 28 millim. 1061. Neacerea albiventus. (Plate XVI. fig. 22.) Neacerea albiventus, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 406 (1898). S . Head and thorax black; palpi in front and frons white ; streaks on patagia and a fine dorsal line on thorax white ; coxae and stripes on legs white; abdomen suffused with brilliant blue, the ventral surface white ; wings black. Fore wing wdth oblique semihyaline white band across end of cell to vein 2 ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing with the inner area semihyaline whitish ; cilia white towards apex and tornus; underside with white fascia on basal half of costa, an apical patch and the inner area pure white.
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