. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. BOBINSONIA. 11 brown ; abdomen oranj^e with slight dorsal and lateral black points. Fore wing brown, with lanceolate silvery-white patch in submedian interspace from near base to near termen extending just into the cell. Fig. 2.—Robinsonia grotei, (^. ]-. and below vein 1; a wedge-shaped patch from apex to just below vein 3 extending into end of cell. Hind wing semihyaline white. Bab. Mexico, Jalapa ; Costa E-ica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood. Van Patten), Godman-
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. BOBINSONIA. 11 brown ; abdomen oranj^e with slight dorsal and lateral black points. Fore wing brown, with lanceolate silvery-white patch in submedian interspace from near base to near termen extending just into the cell. Fig. 2.—Robinsonia grotei, (^. ]-. and below vein 1; a wedge-shaped patch from apex to just below vein 3 extending into end of cell. Hind wing semihyaline white. Bab. Mexico, Jalapa ; Costa E-ica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood. Van Patten), Godman-Salvin Coll.; Tetnidad ; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, type t in Coll. Schaus; Peru. , d 52, $ 56 millim. *1197. Robinsonia deiopea. Robinsonia deiopea, Druce, A, M. N", H. (6) xvi. p. 37 (1895); id. Biol. , Het. ii. p. 390, pi. 77. f. 9. $ . Head and thorax brown ; palpi and antennae black ; frons and vertex of head white, the latter yellow behind ; thorax brown, the tegulae, patagia, and with white patches; legs greyish white; abdomen orange \A'ith dorsal white points, lateral black spots on terminal segments, the ventral surface white. Fore wing yellow-brown, some yellowish white at base of inner margin ; a triangular white patch below the cell extending just into it; a large triangular patch beyond the cell from just above vein 0 to below 3; two conjoined subapical spots and a spot above tornus. Hind wing pure white. Hah. Br. Honduras, Belize {Sir A. Moloneif), type $ in Coll. Druce. Exjp. 52 millim. This species is unknown to me. *1198. Robinsonia polyplagia. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 1.) Robinsoniapolyplagia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) vii. p. 266 (1901). S . Palpi blackish with white lateral patches on the joints ; head white with black bar above frons, the back of head orange; antennae black; thorax brown, with large white patches on tegulse, patagia^ and metathorax; legs with fuscous streaks; abdomen brownish orange. Fore wing pale yellow-brown, two wh
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