. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XEEOCIRTS. EXJBEYAS. 401 anfcennse brown; patagia pure white ; legs white, the tarsi with brown marks on the joints ; abdomen white with the dorsal crests black-brown. Fore wing silvery white ; grey subbasal spots below costa'and cell; a blackish fascia mixed with olive-green on costal area from before to beyond middle conjoined to the elliptical orbicular and the rather large reniform stigmata which are olive- green ; an olive-greon antemedial bar with a silvery purple-grey patch on it from submedian fold to inner margin alo
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XEEOCIRTS. EXJBEYAS. 401 anfcennse brown; patagia pure white ; legs white, the tarsi with brown marks on the joints ; abdomen white with the dorsal crests black-brown. Fore wing silvery white ; grey subbasal spots below costa'and cell; a blackish fascia mixed with olive-green on costal area from before to beyond middle conjoined to the elliptical orbicular and the rather large reniform stigmata which are olive- green ; an olive-greon antemedial bar with a silvery purple-grey patch on it from submedian fold to inner margin along which it is. Fig. 189.—I'erociris mlsoni, cf. \. continued as a fascia to the terminal band, which has a sinuous olive-green line on its inner edge and is deep purple-grey with some white dentate marks and a fine line on termen ; cilia purple- grey with two fine pale lines through them. Hind wing pure white with a chocolate-red ])atch on termen from torn us to vein 2 and a point above vein 2 ; cilia purple-grey at the red patch. Ilab. , Texas, Shovel Mts., 2 d • Enp. 40-44 millim. Larva. Head reddish brown with a black spot on the face of each lobe. Body robust, enlarged at joint 12, purplish black, each segment with a transverse red patch subventrally and a complete band on joint 12 ; several narrow transverse white lines on each segment; on the thoi'ax and on joint 12 several of the setae are very long and flattened, spatulate; shields and feet red, tipped with black.—H. G. D. Genus EUDRYAS. Type. Euthisanotia, Hiibn. Samml. Exot. Schniett. Ziitr. iii. p. 12 (1827), non descr tinio. Eiidryas, Boisd. Spec. gen. Lop. i. p. 4 (1836), non descr.; Wlk. ix. 143(1850) .'. unio. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short; Irons with large rounded prominence with raised edges at extremity and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna; of male ciliated
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