. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 208 ARCTIAD^, Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the tornus produced to a pointed lobe, the inner area with fold and tuft of hair. 1611. Belemnia Zycimui eryx, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 552 (1775); Hiibn. Samml. ex. Sehmett. i.; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 170. Sphinx inaurata, Cram. Pap. Esot. ii. pi. 140, E, F (1777); nee Sulz-. Belemnia crameri, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 339 (1875); Kirby,. Cat. Het. p. 170. Belemnia obscura, Druce, A. N. H. (7) iii p. 232 (1899
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 208 ARCTIAD^, Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the tornus produced to a pointed lobe, the inner area with fold and tuft of hair. 1611. Belemnia Zycimui eryx, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 552 (1775); Hiibn. Samml. ex. Sehmett. i.; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 170. Sphinx inaurata, Cram. Pap. Esot. ii. pi. 140, E, F (1777); nee Sulz-. Belemnia crameri, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 339 (1875); Kirby,. Cat. Het. p. 170. Belemnia obscura, Druce, A. N. H. (7) iii p. 232 (1899). J. Black; head, thorax, and legs largely spotted and marked with golden green ; abdomen with golden green maculate dorsal fascia, silvery green lateral patches on 1st three segments followed bj brilliant blue patches on the next three, ventral surface with. Fig. 119.—Belemnia eryx, (^. |. silvery green patches on 1st two segments, the edge of 2nd, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th segments crimson. Fore wing with the basal half golden green, the veins and folds on it streaked with black, its outer edge rather oblique; a postmedial crimson band from below cot^ta to vein 3, expanding and rounded at lower extremity. Hind wing with slight green streaks below costa and on inner margin. Underside of fore wing with silvery blue-green fascise in and below cell and spot at upper angle ; hind wing with the basal area blue- green except on inner margin, its outer edge irregular ; spots at angle of cell. Ab. 1. crameri. Fore wing with the postmedial crimson band more or less reduced. The type of ohscura has a spur from upperside of vein 4 of hind wing, ? vein 5. Hah. Brazil, 3 (S, Sta. Catherina, 1 S, Tapajos (Bates), 2 cJ; Bolivia {Buckley), type 16 ohscura in Coll. Druce. Eocj). 42-44 millim. Sect. II. Hind wing of male with the tornus rounded, the inner area without fold and tuft. A. Fore wing with crimson postmedial band inaurata. B. Fore wing with ochreous white postmedial band ochrip
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