. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CACOSTATIA. 431 Hind wing with the cell two-thirds of wing ; vein 2 from well before angle; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing with triangular hyaline patch in and below cell and between veins 2 and 3 ossa. B. Fore wing with hyaline streak in lower part of cell and fascia below the cell sapphira. C Fore wing with triangular spot above base of vein 2 discalis. 950. Cacostatia ossa. Metadatla ossa, Druc
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. CACOSTATIA. 431 Hind wing with the cell two-thirds of wing ; vein 2 from well before angle; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing with triangular hyaline patch in and below cell and between veins 2 and 3 ossa. B. Fore wing with hyaline streak in lower part of cell and fascia below the cell sapphira. C Fore wing with triangular spot above base of vein 2 discalis. 950. Cacostatia ossa. Metadatla ossa, Druce, P. Z. S. 1803, p. 283; Biol. , Het. ii. p. 359, pi. 73. f. 1. c^*. Black shot with brilliant blue ; frons at sides and coxte white ; abdomen with the ventral surface white. Fore wing with large triangular hyaline patch in and below cell and between veins 2 and 3 ; an oblique band be3-ond the cell from below costa to vein 3 near termen. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, and a rather irregular terminal band narrowest at middle, black shot with blue ; cilia white towards tornus. Hah, Beitish Gtjiana (WJdtely), type f in Coll. Druce; Cayenne ; Colombia, Bogota, 1 c?. Kvp. 42 millim. 951. Cacostatia sapphira. Agyrta saphira, Stand. Yerh. Ges. Wien, xxv. p. 122 (1875) Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 81; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 180. Black ; head, metathorax, and abdomen shot with metallic blue; palpi in front, points on frons and shoulders, head behind eyes, C0X8D, and stripes on legs white ; abdomen with the ventral surface white. Tore wing metnllic blue at base ; a hyaline streak in lower. Fig. 232.— Cacostatia sapphira, (^. {. part of cell and somewhat wedge-shaped fascia below the cell; an oblique band beyond the cell from just below the costa to vein 2 near termen. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, and a terminal band expanding at apex and tornus and extending on inner margin to near base, black shot with brilliant blue; cilia white towards tornus. Hab. Mexico
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