. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MESOCEREA. 303 abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing1 rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved ; vein 3 from angle of cell: 4, 5 stalked i 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about two- thirds length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4 absent; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; the terminal area on underside of male clothed with rough scales. In key differs from Autichloris in the fore wing having veins 4, 5 stalked. *10G5 h. Mesocerea distincta. Tencer di
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MESOCEREA. 303 abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing1 rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved ; vein 3 from angle of cell: 4, 5 stalked i 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about two- thirds length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4 absent; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; the terminal area on underside of male clothed with rough scales. In key differs from Autichloris in the fore wing having veins 4, 5 stalked. *10G5 h. Mesocerea distincta. Tencer distincta, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 43 (1911), & xix. p. 375, pi. iii. f. 2. d. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown faintly tinged with bine ; the back of head with two small scarlet spots; teguhe with yellow line at base ; metathorax edged with yellowish behind ; fore coxae pale crimson; abdomen with the extremity and ventral sur- face crimson. Fore wing black-brown ; a small yellowish spot at base; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in end of cell, elongate patch belowr the cell, and postmedial spots above and below vein (3 ; a few yellowish scales on discocellulars and slight antemedial and medial marks above vein 1 ; subterminal line very indistinct, yellowish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a small white apical patch. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins black ; the costal and terminal areas rather broadly black-brown, the termen greyish except towards apex ; the underside with the termen broadly greyish. Sab. Surinam, Mareewym Valley, Arcewarwa Creek (Klages*), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. *1065 c. Mesocerea apicalis. Tencer apicalis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 42 (1911), & xix. p, 375, pi. iii. f. 1. J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the vertex of head orange-yellowr; palpi in front and lower part of frons greyish ; fore coxa? yellow; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing black-brown; a wedge-shaped whitish
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