. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. iEMILIA.—TYIUA. 185 1558. JEmilia testudo, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 21.) (S. Dark brown, vertex of head pale yellow ; shoulders with pale yellow patches ; neck j)inkish fulvous; tarsi ringed with yellow. Fore win^ brown with a slight silvery gloss ; the median nervure streaked with fulvous ; yellow spots on costa at middle and before apex. Hind wing hyaline, the terminal area tinged with fuscous broadly at apex and tornus. Hab. Peru, Chanchamayo (Thamm), 1 (S ty
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. iEMILIA.—TYIUA. 185 1558. JEmilia testudo, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 21.) (S. Dark brown, vertex of head pale yellow ; shoulders with pale yellow patches ; neck j)inkish fulvous; tarsi ringed with yellow. Fore win^ brown with a slight silvery gloss ; the median nervure streaked with fulvous ; yellow spots on costa at middle and before apex. Hind wing hyaline, the terminal area tinged with fuscous broadly at apex and tornus. Hab. Peru, Chanchamayo (Thamm), 1 (S type. ErvjJ. 34 millim,. 1559. JEmilia pagana. Halisidota pagana, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 230. Black-brown ; palpi orauge, black at tip ; the basal joint of antennae, a bar between their bases, and the sides of vertex orange ; the edges of patagia, pectus, and femora above orange ; abdomen. Fig. 101 .—Mmilia pagana, $. }. with lateral orange bands intersecting the dorsal black area, which on the last two segments is more or less reduced to spots. Fore wing with the veins darker; some orange hair at base of inner margin of fore wing and at base of hind wing, which is rather thinly scaled. Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana (Jones), 1 J . E^rp. 42 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 1560. Emilia asignata, n. sp. (Plate XLII. %. 7.) •' Pale brown ; palpi at tips and frons fuscous ; vertex of head yellowish ; abdomen dorsally orange, with short dorsal bands and lateral series of spots. Fore wing with the discocellulars fuscous. Hind wing whitish, tinged wdth brown towards termen. Hab. Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, 1 $ type, J in Coll. Staudinger. Eayp. 44 millim. Genus TYRIA. Type. T^ria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 166 (1827) Jacob<sa. Euchelia, Boisd. Gen. Ind. Meth. p. 56 (1840) jacohcBce, Hipocrita, Hiibn. Tent, ined jacobaos. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, short, and clothed with long hair ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair; abdomen more smoothly scaled ; antennae of male cil
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