. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XERITOS. ISl $ . Fore wing with the yellow patches on costa and tcrmcn con- fluent; the subapical patch reduced leaving more yellow on termcn. //«/). Costa Rica, Caudelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 cS type, God- man-Salvin Coll.; Guatemala, typet$ iijJoUs in Coll. Staudinger. /t>^9. 3-i millim. B. Foi-e wing of m;ile without fuvea. «. Fore wing with veins 10, II fruin cell. a\ Hind wing yellow ncrefiiia. A'. Hind wing crimson cardiiialis, *15o0. Neritos nere'.ina. (Plate XLII. fig. 9.) Trkhromia nerctina, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XERITOS. ISl $ . Fore wing with the yellow patches on costa and tcrmcn con- fluent; the subapical patch reduced leaving more yellow on termcn. //«/). Costa Rica, Caudelaria Mts. (Underwood), 1 cS type, God- man-Salvin Coll.; Guatemala, typet$ iijJoUs in Coll. Staudinger. /t>^9. 3-i millim. B. Foi-e wing of m;ile without fuvea. «. Fore wing with veins 10, II fruin cell. a\ Hind wing yellow ncrefiiia. A'. Hind wing crimson cardiiialis, *15o0. Neritos nere'.ina. (Plate XLII. fig. 9.) Trkhromia nerctina, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 37 (1898). J. Head ochre-yellow; frons purplish brown; thorax purple- brown ; legs pale yellow ; fore femora crimson iu front; abdomen pale yellow, suffused with ciimsoii on dorsum. Fore wing wath the inner area purple-browu from costa before middle to termen just above tornus, its upper edge curved and somewhat dentate at the veins: the apical half of wings yellow, with a large purple-browu subapical patch extending just into cell and running down to a point just below lower angle of cell. Hind wing yellowish white. 2 . Fore wing with the projection from subapical patch confluent with the dark basal area; hind wing crimson. JJali. Venezuela, Aroa, Porto Cabello; Peku, Piches and Perenc Valleys, 2U00-3000 feet, Ea^p. 27 millim. *1551. Neritos cardinalis. yeritos cardinalis, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xliii. p. 327 (1899). cJ. Crimson ; head and thorax somewhat mixed with brown ; a chrome-yellow bar between antennae ; mid and hind coxae, base of tibiae, the spurs, the tarsi except at extremity, and tlie ventral surface of abdomen yellow. Fore w ing thiclvly mottled with purplish fus- cous ; au autemedial chrome- yellow band angled inwards at middle and expanding at V\g. \Q\.—Neritos cardinalis, S• \. eosta ; a dome-shaped spot on middle of costa; spots on termen at and vein 4, and an irregularly triangular spot above tornus. Ilah. Colombia (Micaij), type f
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