. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. COSMOSOMA. 227 Fore wing with diseocellular black spot; the terminal hand verj- wide ou apical area, and expanding at vein 2, Hind wing with the terminal hand wide at apex and expanding towards tornus. Hah. Dominica {Ellott), 2^2$. Exi). 48 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. 475. Cosmosoma ignidorsia, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 17.) cJ, Head and teguliB black; antennae white at tips; frons and tegulee with metallic blue spots ; thorax scarlet; shoulders Avith black and blue spots ; legs black; abdomen with the 1st segment and lateral
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. COSMOSOMA. 227 Fore wing with diseocellular black spot; the terminal hand verj- wide ou apical area, and expanding at vein 2, Hind wing with the terminal hand wide at apex and expanding towards tornus. Hah. Dominica {Ellott), 2^2$. Exi). 48 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. 475. Cosmosoma ignidorsia, n. sp. (Plate XVII. fig. 17.) cJ, Head and teguliB black; antennae white at tips; frons and tegulee with metallic blue spots ; thorax scarlet; shoulders Avith black and blue spots ; legs black; abdomen with the 1st segment and lateral patches on 2nd scarlet, the remainder black with dorsal and lateral series of blue spots ; the ventral valve with lateral white spots; wings hj'aline, the veins and margins rather broadly black. Fore wing with basal scarlet streak above inner margin, the ter- minal band expanding widely to apex and slightly at tornus. Hah. Ekazil, Minas Geraes, 1 6 type. Exp. 40 millim. 470. Cosmosoma subflamma. Glaucopls suhfiammn, Wlk. i. 159 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Hct. p. 140. Laitiocharis '^diM^. A.\\sserenv. Scbraett. i. p. 243 (1854); Bull. 111. Het. i. p. 31, pi. 12. f. 9. 5 . Black; frons, vertex of head and thorax, tegulae and patagia metallic blue; thorax below scarlet; legs black, the femora and hind tibia) and tarsi striped with scarlet; abdomen Avith dorsal series of metallic blue spots and lateral spots on 2nd segment;. Fig. 106.— Cosmosoma subflamma, cj'. t- wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with the terminal band very broad on apical area and expanded at vein 2 ; streaks in cell and submedian interspace ; hind wing with the terminal band wide at apex. Hah. Brazii:,, 1 5 type. Exp. 42 millim. Typet panoses in Coll. Staudinger. Subsp. 1. hwia, Scbaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). Mid and hind femora, tibia) and tarsi black ; hind femora at extremity and tibiaj at base black; abdomen of male with the valve Avhite. Hah. Santa Lucia, 2 d&quo
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