. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 422 AECTIAD^. c?. Hind wing semihyaline yellowish white, the inner area only tinged with pink. Hah. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 $ type ; Pehf, Riaja (Gar- lepp). Exp., (S 34, 2 48 millim. Genus SEIRARCTIA. Seirarctia, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbilad, iii. p. 119 (1864) Type. echo. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect; bead and thorax clothed with long woolly hair ; antennae of male with moderate branches, of female with very short branches ; fore tibi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 422 AECTIAD^. c?. Hind wing semihyaline yellowish white, the inner area only tinged with pink. Hah. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 $ type ; Pehf, Riaja (Gar- lepp). Exp., (S 34, 2 48 millim. Genus SEIRARCTIA. Seirarctia, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbilad, iii. p. 119 (1864) Type. echo. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect; bead and thorax clothed with long woolly hair ; antennae of male with moderate branches, of female with very short branches ; fore tibise with long curved claw on outer side and short claw on inner side ; hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. A. Fore wing white, with dark streaks on each side of the veins echo. B. Fore wing flesh-colour irrorated with black clara. *1989. Seirarctia echo. PhalcBua echo. Abbot & Smith, Lep. Georgia, ii. pi. 68 (1797); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 242. Spilosoma niohe, Streck. Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philad. 1884, p. 284; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 227. (S. White ; palpi and legs orange, banded with black; antennae with the branches black ; abdomen with dorsal series of blackish spots, a subdorsal series of orange patches, a lateral series of small black spots and sublateral spots on three medial segments. Eore wing with the veins defined on each side by broad brown fasci?e ;. Fig. 111.—Seirarctia echo, (^. \. a suhcostal fascia extending to beyond middle. Hind wing with some brown at extremity of median nervure; veins 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 defined on each side at extremity by short brown streaks. $ . Abdomen mostly orange above, the series of black spots much larger; hind wing without brown at end of cell and with hardly a trace of it at extremity of the veins. Hah. U
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