. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. '6 jjoc':. its lower extremity connected by a white fascia with the reniform, which is U-shaped, open above, with brown centre and white annulus ; postmedial line double filled in with white, strongljf bent outwards below costa, incurved, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 6, joining the antemedial line above inner margin, some diffused white on its outer edge and some white points on costa; subtermiual lino only defined by the area beyond it being. Fig. 21.—ToUa orha, cJ. \. more purplish grey, angled outwards at
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. '6 jjoc':. its lower extremity connected by a white fascia with the reniform, which is U-shaped, open above, with brown centre and white annulus ; postmedial line double filled in with white, strongljf bent outwards below costa, incurved, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 6, joining the antemedial line above inner margin, some diffused white on its outer edge and some white points on costa; subtermiual lino only defined by the area beyond it being. Fig. 21.—ToUa orha, cJ. \. more purplish grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurvcd at middle, joined by an oblique dark streak from termen below apex; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the costal and terminal areas slightly tinged with red-brown, a rufous terminal line ; the underside with tbe costal area irrorated with rufous, a dark discoidal point and traces of a sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Mexico, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 (S type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Ea-j). 30 millim. 1229. Polia rubens. Celana rubens, Druce, Eiol. , Ilet. i. p. 274, pi. 26. f. 25 (1889). Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with a few white scales ; tegulae with black line near tips ; jxitagia partly edged with black; abdomen dark purplish brown. Fore wing purple-brown suffused with grey ; an olive-green streak in eubmedian fold to postmedial line; subbasal line double, blackish filled in with grey, waved, from costa to subraedian fold, where it is connected with base by a black streak ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, strongly angled outwards below costa, then obliquely waved and bent inwards to inner margin; claviform more or less elongate, strongly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with white annuli slightly defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the latter with yellowish centre, narrow, stronglj'^ angled inwards on median nervure, slightly in female; postmedial line double filled in with grey,
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