. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 417 shoulders with orange patches ; abdomen black-brown with some metallic blue scales in the dorsal crests. Fore wing chocolate- brown irrorated with blue-white and metallic silvery blue scales ; a very indistinct rufous antemedial line, oblique to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous and with some metallic blue scales in centres, the former round, the latter rather irregular,. Fig. 197.—Germ radicalis, ($. {. and with a faint yellowis
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 417 shoulders with orange patches ; abdomen black-brown with some metallic blue scales in the dorsal crests. Fore wing chocolate- brown irrorated with blue-white and metallic silvery blue scales ; a very indistinct rufous antemedial line, oblique to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous and with some metallic blue scales in centres, the former round, the latter rather irregular,. Fig. 197.—Germ radicalis, ($. {. and with a faint yellowish patch beyond it; postmedial line indis- tinct, minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, closely approximated to the subterminal line, which is irregularly sinuous, dark, defined on outer side by bright rufous suffusion, then by a slight pale band ; a faint pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow with broad dark brown terminal band with minutely waved inner edge ; cilia gi'eyish at tips. Underside of fore wing with some orange at base and a wedge-shaped postmedial patch from below costa to just below vein 2. Hah. Mexico, (Tn(Jlllo, Iloege), 2 c? , 2 5 , Guerrero {H. H. Smith), 1 c?, 1 2, Patycuaro ((xot^ntc/?;.), 1 $ type adrasta, Orhaha (FloJir), 1 2 Godmau-Salvin Coll., hab. ign., 1 <^ type. Krj). 42- 48 millim. 4887. Gerra sevorsa. Fenaria sevorsa, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 132 (1882); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 195; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 39. Diammia cedessa, Druce, £iol. , Het. i. p. 334, pi. 30. ff. 21, 22 (1889). Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with whitish scales ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen black-brown, the dorsal crests with some metallic scales, the anal tuft with some grey. Pore wing chocolate-brown irrorated with bluish white and some metallic silvery scales, a diffused whitish patch beyond the cell from costa to vein 3; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved; orbicular and reniform o
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