. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SPEAGUEIA, 673 banded with black; abdomen brown with white segmental lines, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing orange- red ; an oblique black patch at base from costa to inner margin, followed by a triangular yellowish-white patch from costa to sub- median fold: orbicular and reniform purplish black, small, round, the former with purplish band from it to inner margin, a yellowish- white patch between them extending to costa on which there is a. Fig. 189.—S'jjragueia dama, c?. f. black point and some bl
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SPEAGUEIA, 673 banded with black; abdomen brown with white segmental lines, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing orange- red ; an oblique black patch at base from costa to inner margin, followed by a triangular yellowish-white patch from costa to sub- median fold: orbicular and reniform purplish black, small, round, the former with purplish band from it to inner margin, a yellowish- white patch between them extending to costa on which there is a. Fig. 189.—S'jjragueia dama, c?. f. black point and some black before and beyond the yellowish patch ; postmedial line represented by a yellowish spot on costa with oblique black striga beyond it and purplish-black somewhat incurved band from below it to inner margin ; a black patch on cilia at discal fold. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish, the veins, costal and terminal areas suffused with brown. 5 . Vertex of head black; fore wing with black patch on costa beyond the subbasal yellowish patch, the whole medial area [mrplish black below the yellowish patch ; the postmedial purplish-black band much broader ; underside of hind wing wholly fuscous brown. Hah. , Alabama, 2 (S, Florida, 1 $ type pardalis, Texas, 2 cj', 3 2 ; Mexico, Guerrero {H. H. Smith), 2 cS , Presidio (For)-er), 1 2 /-Tabasco [), 1 5 ; Guatemala, San Isidro (Chamjjion), 1 c?, 3 2 , S. Geronimo (Champion), 1 6 ', Cdba, Santiago (Sch/ms), 2 c?, 2 $ , Tanamo (Schaus), 1 c?, Alcadro (Schans). 1 S ; Haiti (Tweedie), 3 $ type transmutata ; Grenada [H. H. Smith), 3 2 ; hab. ign., 1 6 type trifariana. Exp. 16-22 raillim. 6017. Spragueia jaguaralis, n. sp. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 6.) Agrofhila riodisana, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. (nee Wlk.). (S. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the dorsum of thorax mostly black ; palpi whitish with a fuscous ring at base of 3rd joint; frons whitish with a fuscous
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