. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 32 ARCTIADJ!. of cell, and oti discocellulars ; tho basal half of costal edge white ; the apical half of wing yellow. Hind wing pale crimson, with a whiter area from the base through the cell to middle of termen. Underside of fore wing with the medial area crimson. Hah. Brazil, llio Grande do Sul, 1 J, 1 ? type. 34 millim. Genus AMAXIA. Type. Amaxia, Wlk. iii. 721 (1855) pardalis. ? Echeta, '. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 16 (1850) divisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the .
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 32 ARCTIADJ!. of cell, and oti discocellulars ; tho basal half of costal edge white ; the apical half of wing yellow. Hind wing pale crimson, with a whiter area from the base through the cell to middle of termen. Underside of fore wing with the medial area crimson. Hah. Brazil, llio Grande do Sul, 1 J, 1 ? type. 34 millim. Genus AMAXIA. Type. Amaxia, Wlk. iii. 721 (1855) pardalis. ? Echeta, '. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 16 (1850) divisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the .Srd joint minute; antennie bipectinate with muderate branches; tibi.'B with the spurs short ; abdomen dorsally clothed with hair at Fore wing with vein 3 from long before angle of cell; 4, 5 separate at origin; 6 from or from below upper angle ; 7, 8. 9, 10 stalked, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from or from before angle of cell or stalked with 5; 3, 5 stalked or coincident; 4 absent; 6, 7 coincident; 8 from middle of cell, curved and not reaching costa, which is strongly lobed at base in male. Sect. I. Hind wing of male with the base of costa very stronglj' lobed, with a large patch of androconia en upperside corresponding with a piitch on underside of inner area of foi-e wing ; veins 2 and 5 stalked, 3 and 5 coincident. A. Abdomen crimson above osmophora. B. Abdomen brown above apyga. .1234. Amaxia osmophora, n. sp. Amaxia dyuna, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 3G9 (nee Schaus). (S. Head and thorax bright yellow ; palpi above and antennas brownish ; a band on Irons and neck orange ; patagia and thorax with crimson and brown spots ; legs streaked with fuscous ; abdomen crimson, the terminal segment yellow, the ventral surface white. Fore wing bright yellow; crimson - edged grey basal and subbasal spots below median nervure and two smaller spots below costa; a very irregular medial band not reaching costa, and constricted above inner margin and crossed by crim
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