. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 7.—Idahis admirabilis, (^. Hah. Venezuela, Aroa, c?; Beazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 2 type f in Coll. Schaus. Ex^. 42 millim. i'. Hind wing of male with tho costa slightly arched and without patch of aadrocoiiia; female with veins 7, 8 strongly stalked. 1209. Idalus admirabilis. Idalus admirabilis, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 103. G- (1777); Aussereur. Schmett. f. 474; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 198. (S. Head white; palpi and antennae ochreous, some yellow betw
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. Fig. 7.—Idahis admirabilis, (^. Hah. Venezuela, Aroa, c?; Beazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 2 type f in Coll. Schaus. Ex^. 42 millim. i'. Hind wing of male with tho costa slightly arched and without patch of aadrocoiiia; female with veins 7, 8 strongly stalked. 1209. Idalus admirabilis. Idalus admirabilis, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 103. G- (1777); Aussereur. Schmett. f. 474; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 198. (S. Head white; palpi and antennae ochreous, some yellow between antennae ; thorax white, yellow, and crimson ; legs white with slight crimson mark- ings ; abdomen crimson ; the anal tuft and ven- tral surface white. Eore wing yellow; the inter- spaces of basal area with series of blue-grey streaks defined by white and angled on median uervure; some crimson at base of inner margin ; the medial part of costa white ; a medial band composed of blue-grey streaks in the interspaces defined by white, produced along costa towards apex, narrowing at discocellulars, then widening and almost joining the basal markings on inner margin ; a subterminal blue-grey spot above vein 5. Hind wing crimson, the margins white. 2 . With two of the basal streaks produced in cell; the medial band much more even, hardly {)roduced along costa, widely separated from the basal marking at inner margin, and with a crimson spot beyond it at tornus. Hab. Surinam ; Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 c? Zeller Coll., 1 $ . Exp. 42 millim. b. Hind wing with veins 7, 8 shortly stalked in male, the costa slightly arched and without patch of androconia. 1210. Idalus xanthia, n. sp. palpi black, white in front ; frons black with blue patches ; antennae black; legs black striped with yel- lowish white, the coxae with blue patches; abdomen with the last four segments black with dorsal and lateral blue spots, the ventral surface yellowish white with black bands; wings uniform orange, hin
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