. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 110 :. femora clothed with yellowish hair ; abdomen with the basal half yellowish suffused with scarlet, the terminal half fuscous brown. Pore wing fuscous brown. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal and inner areas yellowish suffused with scarlet. Hah. Fit. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type t 6 in Nat. Mus. Exp. 30 milium *1546/. Neritos maculosa. Neritos maculosa, Scliaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 225 (1905). d. Antenna' serrate; hind legs with the femora, tibiae, and 1st joint of tarsi dilated and thickly f
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 110 :. femora clothed with yellowish hair ; abdomen with the basal half yellowish suffused with scarlet, the terminal half fuscous brown. Pore wing fuscous brown. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal and inner areas yellowish suffused with scarlet. Hah. Fit. Guiana, St. Laurent Maroni, type t 6 in Nat. Mus. Exp. 30 milium *1546/. Neritos maculosa. Neritos maculosa, Scliaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 225 (1905). d. Antenna' serrate; hind legs with the femora, tibiae, and 1st joint of tarsi dilated and thickly fringed with scales and hair; fore wing with veins 10, 11 stalked, the fovea elongate ; hind wing with the costal lobe extending to three fourths length of wing. Head fuscous with an orange patch on back of head ; thorax grey suffused with fuscous brown : pectus and legs brownish orange ; abdomen orange with some fuscous hair at base. Fore wing yellowish white, some brown at base ; an antemedial brown streak above vein 1 ; two streaks below medial part of costa and shorter. Pig. 40.—Neritos maculosa, <3. !• streaks below origin of vein 2 and above inner margin ; two streaks in end of cell and one below the extremity ; a series of streaks from costa beyond middle to tornus, towards which they decrease in length; some slight streaks on extremities of the veins. Hind wing yellow with slight fuscous irroration below the cell. Hub. Fr. (xUIANA, St. dean Maroni, type t S in Nat. Mus. Exp. 36 millim. *1517 a. Neritos sardinapalus. Hyponerita mr&ina'pal'us, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 51, pi. 7. f. 21 (1909). 9 . Head and thorax deep purplish crimson, the vertex of head with yellow patch; palpi yellow tinged with crimson; antenme white towards tips; pectus and legs yellow, the fore femora tinged with crimson above ; abdomen crimson, the medial segments suffused with brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface yellow. Pore wing deep crimson suffused with purple; a small deep
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