. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. un \ 1544. Neritos repanda. insert (syn.) : Paranerita diversa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 178 (1917). Venezuela, Esteban Valley (Klages), typef 6, $ m Coll. Rothschild, Merida. *1544«. Neritos meialeuca. (Plate XLV. fig. 8.) Neritos metalewa, Dogn. Het. Noiiv. Am. Sud, iii. p. 13 (1911). d â Head and thorax purplish brown, the vertex of head with yellow patch ; palpi yellow, tinged with crimson at tips ; antennae white towards tips; pectus and legs white; abdomen crimson with white dorsal point at base, the a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. un \ 1544. Neritos repanda. insert (syn.) : Paranerita diversa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 178 (1917). Venezuela, Esteban Valley (Klages), typef 6, $ m Coll. Rothschild, Merida. *1544«. Neritos meialeuca. (Plate XLV. fig. 8.) Neritos metalewa, Dogn. Het. Noiiv. Am. Sud, iii. p. 13 (1911). d â Head and thorax purplish brown, the vertex of head with yellow patch ; palpi yellow, tinged with crimson at tips ; antennae white towards tips; pectus and legs white; abdomen crimson with white dorsal point at base, the anal tuft and ventral surface white. Fore wing purple-brown to the costa before middle and thence with slightly sinuous outer edge defined by crimson to termen at sub- median fold ; the apical half of wing pale yellow with a large round subapical purple-brown patch with slightly waved edges denned by crimson. Hind wing semihyaline white. Underside of fore wing white with some brown above the costal lobe of hind wing and the subapical patch brown. JI nit. Venezuela, Merida, typef d in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 30 millim. *1544 b. Neritos chrysozona. Neritos chrysozona, Schaus, Pr. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 220 (1905). c?. Antennae with serrations ending in a bristle; fore wing with the fovea short; a slight longitudinal fold beyond upper angle of cell and dilation of the costa above it. vein 10 bent downwards and approximated to 7, 8, !>, then curved upwards to costa; vein 11 curved upwards to the costa; hind wing with the costal lobe about half length of Fig. 34. Nentos chrysozona, '. ]. Head orange, the palpi above, antennae, and spots on frons and vertex of head dark brown; thorax brown, the base of tegulae and shoulders orange; pectus and legs givy-hrown ; abdomen black- brown,the extremity paler, the ventral surface whitish. Pore wing biack-brown, the veins, submedian fold, and inner margin streaked with yellow on basal area ; a broad golden yellow hand from middle.
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