. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. TEFCER. 381 spots in middle and end of cell, and a series just beyond it bent inwards below it; a curved subterminal series of spots bent inwards below vein 2 ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing black, with hyaline streaks in and below cell; the fold of inner area with yellowish-white patch above, white below : the rough scales on underside mixed with white. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 S ^ypc Exp. 30 millim. 847. Teucer brevipennis. Telioneura hrevipennis, B
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. TEFCER. 381 spots in middle and end of cell, and a series just beyond it bent inwards below it; a curved subterminal series of spots bent inwards below vein 2 ; a terminal series of spots. Hind wing black, with hyaline streaks in and below cell; the fold of inner area with yellowish-white patch above, white below : the rough scales on underside mixed with white. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 S ^ypc Exp. 30 millim. 847. Teucer brevipennis. Telioneura hrevipennis, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 45, pi. 16. f, 9 (1877); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 165. S . Head and thorax fuscous and brown ; back of head with two orange spots; coxa? white ; abdomen blackish, the anal tuft greyish at tip, the ventral surface white except towards extremity. Fore wing blackish brown, with some ochreous suffusion chiefly on the veins ; a wedge-shaped hyaline spot in cell, and elongate patch below the cell; Fig. \^S.—Teucer hrevipennis, S - \- ^ series of four hyaline spots beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; a rather indistinct subterminal ochreous lino angled inwards below vein 2 ; cilia whitish at apex, at vein 5, and between veins 2 and 3. Hind wing black, wdth hyaline streaks in and below the cell towards base, the cilia and the rough scales on underside whitish. Hah. Amazons, Rio Purus {Trail), 1 6 type. Exp. 24 millim, *848. Teucer albapex. (Plate XIV. fig. 22.) Teucer alhapese, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i- p. 407 (1898). ^. Black ; palpi white in front; patagia and vertex of thorax streaked with greyish ; coxse and streaks on femora white ; abdomen with a bluish tinge, lateral white stripes and the ventral surface white. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell; an elongate patch below cell and elongate spots between bases of veins 2-7, leaving a large black discoidal lunule ; the apex white. Hind wing with hyaline fascia below the cell and between veins 2
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