. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 424 NOCTUID^, the apes quadrate, the termen excurved at middle, then excised to tornus, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from an^le of cell; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4896. Vespola cseruleifera. Vespola ccsruleifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 186 (1868) ; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 352, pi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 424 NOCTUID^, the apes quadrate, the termen excurved at middle, then excised to tornus, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from an^le of cell; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4896. Vespola cseruleifera. Vespola ccsruleifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 186 (1868) ; Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 352, pi. 31. f. 12. (S . Head and thorax black-hrown sparsely irrorated with silvery blue scales, the pro- and metathoracic crests Avith some rufous ; tarsi slightly ringed with white; abdomen very dark red-brown irrorated with a few silvery blue scales, pale silvery blue lateral fasciae from 2nd to 5th segments, the ventral surface to oth segment white tinged with silvery blue towards extremity. Fore wing black-brown irrorated with silvery blue, the terminal area with a leaden grey gloss ; a waved silvery blue antemedial Hue excurved at median nervure ; orbicular an indistinct dark brown spot ;. Fig. 202.— Vespola cceruleifera, (^. \. reniform indistinct, dark brown with slight rufous centre ; post- medial line silvery blue, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and sintious ; subterminal line represented by a chocolate- red patch below costa with oblique line from it to termen below vein 4 and an oblique line from vein 3 to termen above tornus ; a rather maculate black terminal line. Hind wnng black-brown with a brilliant metallic blue fascia along median nervure from near base expanding into a large patch beyond tlie cell. Underside of fore wing with some brilliant metallic blue suffusion below basal halt of costa and in and just below cell; hind wing suffused and irrorated with brilliant metallic blue except at apex. Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), 1 J, Godman-Salv
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