. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CALIDOT \. sti dz i:i;as. I*.'} *20145. Calidota rudis. (Plato LXVII. fig. 13.) Calidota rudis, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 613 (1911). 6. Head brown, the vertex, tegulse, and base of patagia orange, the last with a small Mack spot near base, the rest !' thorax red- brown ; abdomen orange with lateral series of small black spots, the ventral surface brown irrorated with ochreous. Fore wing pale red-brown with a faint purplish tinge and some slight reddish marks at base. Hind wing pale reddish brown, the inner area ochreou
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CALIDOT \. sti dz i:i;as. I*.'} *20145. Calidota rudis. (Plato LXVII. fig. 13.) Calidota rudis, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 613 (1911). 6. Head brown, the vertex, tegulse, and base of patagia orange, the last with a small Mack spot near base, the rest !' thorax red- brown ; abdomen orange with lateral series of small black spots, the ventral surface brown irrorated with ochreous. Fore wing pale red-brown with a faint purplish tinge and some slight reddish marks at base. Hind wing pale reddish brown, the inner area ochreous to beyond middle; the underside with the basal half of costal area ochreous. II,ib. Costa Rica, San Mateo {Schaus), type f c? in Nat. Mus. Exp. 48 millim. Genus STIDZ^IRAS. _, Type. Stidzseras, Hmpsn. H. (8) iv. p. 364 (1909) strigifera. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi smoothly scaled, upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching vertex of head ; antenna; in both sexes with short branches ending in a bristle; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 4, 5 in female from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell; male with the cell filled by a semihyaline brand, veins 4, 5 stalked, the end of cell very oblique, 6 from well below upper angle, the areole large and broad and vein 7 curved. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper- angle ; 8 from towards end of cell. In key differs from Atolmis and Phryganopteryx in the hind wing having vein 8 from towards end of cell, the fore wing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell, and from the former in veins 4, 5 being from the cell in the female. 201G a. Stidzseras strigifera. Stidzseras strigifera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 467 (1905). cJ . Palpi and frons blackish ;' antennae brown; vertex of head and tegulse orange, the latter wit
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