. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. KLiEOGXAXnA. '371 fuscous defined by white on inner side, minutely waved, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, retracted at vein 3 and ending at tornus ; a terminal series of prominent black spots. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; cilia whitish at tips. Hah. Costa Rica; Panama, Caua Mines (Ti/lecote), 1 § type. KvjT). 36 millim. 6690. Elaeognatlia argyroleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 6.) 5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. KLiEOGXAXnA. '371 fuscous defined by white on inner side, minutely waved, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, retracted at vein 3 and ending at tornus ; a terminal series of prominent black spots. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; cilia whitish at tips. Hah. Costa Rica; Panama, Caua Mines (Ti/lecote), 1 § type. KvjT). 36 millim. 6690. Elaeognatlia argyroleuca, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 6.) 5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; abdomen grey suffused with brown ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with brown in parts especially below the cell and irrorated with black, the terminal area irrorated with white ; a broad silvery white fascia from base of costa extending through the cell and just below it to postmedial line, the submediau interspace tinged with sap-green to post- medial line ; a minute black point in middle of ceil; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa and between veins 6 and 5, at vein 3 angled inwards to origin of vein 2, then outwards just above vein 1 and inwards above inner margin to middle; sub- terminal line white slightly defined on inner side by black, oblique towards costa, bent inwards at vein 3 and ending at tornus ; a terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by whits. Hind wing grey suffused with purple-brown ; cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish, the costa and termen tinged with brown. Hub. Fr. Guiana, Nouveau Chantier (Le Moult), 1 $ type. 32 millim. Sect. II. Fore wing of male witli fringe of short hair from subcostal nervure on underside, the cell almost entirely filled by a large patch of andro- conia; hind wing with fringe of long hair below basal half of costa on upperside, the termen strongly excised between veins 6 and 3. *6G91. Elaeognatha troctopera. Elwognafka trodopcra, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 203 (1910). S. Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with white ;
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