. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 584 15G. Euschirropterus poeyi, insert:â subsp. pulverosa, Dyar, Pr. Nat. Mus. xlvii. p. 175 (1911). S â Hind wing without the dark terraen, the ^yellow sj>ot near 1 urn us defined by a few dark scales. 2 . Fore wing without dark line in submedian fold defining the white and dark areas; the orbicular large, its centre irrorated with white, rounded. Hab. Panama, La Chorrera. Genus ACANTUERTA. Acantuerta, Hmpsn. A. (7) xix. p. 241 (1907). Typo. thomensit Proboscis fully developed : palpi upturn
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 584 15G. Euschirropterus poeyi, insert:â subsp. pulverosa, Dyar, Pr. Nat. Mus. xlvii. p. 175 (1911). S â Hind wing without the dark terraen, the ^yellow sj>ot near 1 urn us defined by a few dark scales. 2 . Fore wing without dark line in submedian fold defining the white and dark areas; the orbicular large, its centre irrorated with white, rounded. Hab. Panama, La Chorrera. Genus ACANTUERTA. Acantuerta, Hmpsn. A. (7) xix. p. 241 (1907). Typo. thomensit Proboscis fully developed : palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised rim in front and corneous plate below it, very narrow above between the eyes which are naked ; antenna; somewhat dilated towards extremity; mid and hind tibia3 spined ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 1st two segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell: 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. In key differs from Syfania in the mid and hind tibia} being strongly spined, the abdomen with crests on two basal segments. *157 a. Acantuerta thomensis. Tuerta thomensis, Jord. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 445 (1904); id. Seitz. xv. Afr. ii. pi. 4 d. S. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark chocolate-brown; palpi with the 2nd joint whitish in front at extremity; upper pari of Irons at sides and basal joint of antennae whitish; pectus, femora,. Fig. Acantuerta thomensis, J. [. and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, the dorsal crests with a metallic gloss, the claspers with yellowish hair. Pore wing deep chocolate-brown; a dull greenish fascia formed of diffused ,. Please note that these images are extract
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