. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. COSMOSOMA. 241 $ with thick ridges of orange-fulvous hair on extremity of abdomen below. Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {II. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion), type ; Paxama, Chiriqui, Eugaba {Champion), Godman- Salvin Coll. Exp. 26-34 millim. 51G, Cosmosoma durca. (Plate IX. fig. 23.) Cosmosoma durca, Schaus, Journ. New York Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). ? Leemockaris nu/7-ipcs, Heyl. C^. Ent. Soc. Beige, xxxiv. p. xiv (1890); Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 140. Black ; frons, vertex of head, tegulce, patagia, thorax above and at sides
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. COSMOSOMA. 241 $ with thick ridges of orange-fulvous hair on extremity of abdomen below. Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {II. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion), type ; Paxama, Chiriqui, Eugaba {Champion), Godman- Salvin Coll. Exp. 26-34 millim. 51G, Cosmosoma durca. (Plate IX. fig. 23.) Cosmosoma durca, Schaus, Journ. New York Ent. Soc. iv. p. 132 (1896). ? Leemockaris nu/7-ipcs, Heyl. C^. Ent. Soc. Beige, xxxiv. p. xiv (1890); Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 140. Black ; frons, vertex of head, tegulce, patagia, thorax above and at sides with patches of metallic blue scales; tarsi white at extremities ; abdomen with lateral patches of metallic blue scales ; â wings hyaline, the veins and margins rather broally black. Fore wing with black basal patch with metallic blue spot on it; the terminal band of nearly even width throughout, but slightly expanding at apex and tornus of each wing. Bab. Brazil, Sao Paulo, 1 c?, 1 $ (Jones). Exp. 38 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 517. Cosmosoma elegans. (Plate IX. fig. 12.) Cosmosoma elegans, Biitl. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 386 (1876); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 140. (S . Black ; frons with two white points ; ^'ertex of head, tegular, patagia, and sides of thorax with metallic blue patches ; tarsi white at extremities ; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black ; the terminal band very wide on apical area of fore wing, and expanding at tornus and at apex and tornus of hind wing. Hah. Brazil, Espiritu Santo, 1 S type. Exp. 40 millim. Sect. II. Hind wing with the lower part of cell of normal length ; reins 2 and 4 rather shortly stalked ; palpi short. A. Hind wing of male with the terminal area clothed with rough scales on underside. a. Ahdomeu of male with narrow ventral valve covering basal segments. a^. Shoulders with crimson spots oratha. 6'. Shoulders with white spots orathidia. *518. Cosmosoma oratha. Autochloris oratha, Druce, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 281. (S . Black ; fron
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