. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GERRODES.— AUCULA. 419 4889. Gerrodes longipes. Diamuna longipes. Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 334, pi. 30. f. 18 (1889). Head and tkorax red-brown mixed with some grey, the tuft of scales at extremity of patagia and the metathoracic crests brighter rufous; abdomen red-brown dorsally suffused with blackish, the basal crest rufous. Fore wing bright red-brown, the inner and terminal areas tinged with grey, a slight pale streak in end of cell. Fig. 198.—Gen-odes longijpex^ cJ. \. and pale streaks in the interspaces beyond
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GERRODES.— AUCULA. 419 4889. Gerrodes longipes. Diamuna longipes. Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 334, pi. 30. f. 18 (1889). Head and tkorax red-brown mixed with some grey, the tuft of scales at extremity of patagia and the metathoracic crests brighter rufous; abdomen red-brown dorsally suffused with blackish, the basal crest rufous. Fore wing bright red-brown, the inner and terminal areas tinged with grey, a slight pale streak in end of cell. Fig. 198.—Gen-odes longijpex^ cJ. \. and pale streaks in the interspaces beyond upper angle; a slight dark streak below basal half of median nervure and a minute subbasal streak above inner margin ; subbasal and antemeduil lines, orbicular, and reniform absent; postmedial line dark brown, slightly defined by greyish on outer side, arising from costa tov\ ards apex, excurved to vein 3, then double, bent inwards and running very obliquely to submedian fold beyond middle, a short white streak below it towards vein 2; subterminal line dark brown defined by whitish on inner side, excurved to vein 3, then bent inwards to vein 1 beyond middle ; a minutely waved dark terminal line; cilia pale rufous with a slight dark line through them. Hind wing orange with a broad black-brown terminal band expanding on inner area ; cilia greyish with a fine dark line through them. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costal area rufous, the terminal area greyish brown with slight pale streaks on the veins, some rufous suffusion in middle of cell, a largo blackish discoidal spot with some rufoue suffusion below it; hind wing with blackish discoidal spot, the terminal band extending on costa to before middle where it shades to rufous and not expanding at tornus. Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 5 J, 1 5 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. }. 54-60 millim. Genus AUCULA. Type. Av£ula, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 253 (1862) josioides. Arpia, Schaus, J. Ent. Sou. iv. p. 148 (1
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