. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EHTOSTKI'T \. rr, above and below vein 7 and a scries of points beyond tbem ; a terminal series of points, Hind wing creamy white. Underside white, tore wing with the spots showing indistinctly, the lunulate spot iii middle of cell and the postmedial spots above and below vein (J blacker. Hah. Peiu\ Carabaya, San Domingo (Ockenden), typef " in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 1 millim. *]232 c. Eriostepta pseudamaxia. Eriostepta pseudamaxia, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 477 (1917). Hind wing of male with veins (i, 7 shortly stalked,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EHTOSTKI'T \. rr, above and below vein 7 and a scries of points beyond tbem ; a terminal series of points, Hind wing creamy white. Underside white, tore wing with the spots showing indistinctly, the lunulate spot iii middle of cell and the postmedial spots above and below vein (J blacker. Hah. Peiu\ Carabaya, San Domingo (Ockenden), typef " in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 1 millim. *]232 c. Eriostepta pseudamaxia. Eriostepta pseudamaxia, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 477 (1917). Hind wing of male with veins (i, 7 shortly stalked, the costa strongly lobed near truncate to termen at vein 5, a patch of androeonia in upper end of cell on upperside, coinciding with a large rounded patch on underside of fore wing below the cell and vein 2. S- Head yellow mixed with some crimson, the antenna' grey- brown with some crimson at base, the palpi yellow, crimson behind to near extremity of 2nd joint which is grey-brown ; thorax grey- brown, the teguke with the dorsal and outer edges yellow defined by crimson streaks, the patagia yellow with crimson edges, pure white at tips, the nictathorax with crimson streak; abdomen crimson ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore femora and tibia.' crimson above. Fore wing violaceous grey- brown to costa before middle and to termen above tornus. its outer edge defined by crimson, the rest of wing yellow; some crimson at. Fijy. 17.—Eriostepta pseudamaxia, ,- streaked with crimson; a violaceous brown patch beyond the cell above vein 5, indented above, and small spot below base of vein 1 defined by crimson ; elongate violaceous brown marks above veins ">, (i. 7. the mark above vein (i further from termen, some small spots above them on costa ; small sub- terminal violaceous brown spots above veins 1 and 3, and a terminal series. Hind wing white with a wedge-shaped violaceous brown patch at middle id' termen, then the termen tinged with v
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