. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 368 4819. Oxythres splendens. Oxytlires splendens, Druce, A. M. In". H. (7) v. p. 517 (1900). Head fuscous with some rufous between, antennoe; palpi rufous, the 3rd joint black; antennae tinged with purplish; thorax white tinged with pale purplish brown ; pectus in front and legs fuscous, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with fuscous, the sides blackish, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pinkish white, the interspaces suffused with chestnut-red except on costal area, deepest in cell and paler
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 368 4819. Oxythres splendens. Oxytlires splendens, Druce, A. M. In". H. (7) v. p. 517 (1900). Head fuscous with some rufous between, antennoe; palpi rufous, the 3rd joint black; antennae tinged with purplish; thorax white tinged with pale purplish brown ; pectus in front and legs fuscous, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with fuscous, the sides blackish, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pinkish white, the interspaces suffused with chestnut-red except on costal area, deepest in cell and paler towards inner margin and termen, the costal edge red ; antemedial line obsolete on costal area, then chestnut, double filled in with whitish, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli and. Fig. 166. — OxT/ihrcs splendens, ^. \. white lines in centres, the former oblique elliptical extending to well below cell, the latter rather S-shaped; five lunulate whitish lines on terminal lialf, on costal area and oblique below vein 4 ; a triangular black patch on costa towards apex ; cilia whitish. Hiud wing pure semihyaline white with some fuscous on costa at apex. Underside of fore wing white, the costal area suffused with pink to s'jbtermiiial line with fuscous suffusion below it to submedian fold, a difi^used curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, red on costal area, then blackish, a diffused blackish subterminal curved band from costa to vein 2 ; hind wing with luscous marks on costa at middle and towards apex. Hah. Colombia, 1 $ ; Peru, in Coll. Dognin, Exp. (S -^^i 5 48 millim. Type f in Coll. Druce. Genus EUTEEPIA. Type. Enterpia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1850, p. 235 laudeti. Euterpia, Guen. xsoct. ii. p. 171(1852) laudeti. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching middle of frons and fringed with rather long hair in front
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