. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 382 AECTIAD^. crimson, the ventral surface -whitish. Pore wing white, irrorated with a few blackish scales which form diffused patches below base of cell and on inner margin beyond middle. Hind wing fuscous, with pale crimson patch on inner area from base to beyond middle. Hah. Beazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 d" type. Exp. 18 millim. 812. Talara cinerea, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 24.) 5 . Puscous suffused with grey. Fore wing irrorated with black scales. Abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous. Hah. Colombia, Sta. M
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 382 AECTIAD^. crimson, the ventral surface -whitish. Pore wing white, irrorated with a few blackish scales which form diffused patches below base of cell and on inner margin beyond middle. Hind wing fuscous, with pale crimson patch on inner area from base to beyond middle. Hah. Beazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 d" type. Exp. 18 millim. 812. Talara cinerea, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 24.) 5 . Puscous suffused with grey. Fore wing irrorated with black scales. Abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous. Hah. Colombia, Sta. Marta {Bouchard), 1 $ type. Exp. 18 millim. Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. A. Fore wing scarlet. a. Fore wing with large black patches before middle and at torn us megasjnla. b. Fore wing without black antemedial and terminal patches coccinea. B. Fore wing rufous rufa. C. Fore wing fuscous grey. a. Hind wing with the basal half crimson rufihasis. b. Hind wing without crimson grisea. D. Fore wing fuscous, with antemedial and subterminal whitish lines. a. Fore wing with the subterminal line acutely angled on vein 6 hoinhycia. b. Fore wing with the subterminal line escurved at middle phcsella. 813. Talara megaspila. Talara megasjnla, Wlk. xxxv. 1891 (1866); Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 291. (S. Head, thorax, and first segment of abdomen orange-red, the rest of abdomen brown ; legs banded with brown. Pore wing orange-red ; a large conical black patch before middle from inner margin to just below costa with deep blue streaks in cell and submedian fold ; an elongate spot on costa towards apex; a la,rge patch on ter- men from vein 6 to tornus extending nearly to the cell, Fig. 296.— Talara viegaqnla, c^. |. and with some deep blue suffusion near its upper angle. Hind wing black-brown, with the base crimson. Bab. Amazons, Ega {Bates), 1 c? type. ;. 20 S14. Talara coccinea. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 18.) Talara coccinea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 329; Kirby, Oat
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