. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 622 AGAIIISTID^. brown discoidal lunulc, the grey-brown area shading into dark brown towards the grey patch. Hind wing grey-brown, with a yellow patch on basal area extending from inner margin to subcostal nervure and to beyond the cell, its outer edge rounded; a yellow and dark brown subterminal lunule in submedian interspace. Underside of fore wing with diffused yellow fascia along median nervure. Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina (ScJimidt), 1 $ type. Ea^p. 52 mill
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 622 AGAIIISTID^. brown discoidal lunulc, the grey-brown area shading into dark brown towards the grey patch. Hind wing grey-brown, with a yellow patch on basal area extending from inner margin to subcostal nervure and to beyond the cell, its outer edge rounded; a yellow and dark brown subterminal lunule in submedian interspace. Underside of fore wing with diffused yellow fascia along median nervure. Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina (ScJimidt), 1 $ type. Ea^p. 52 millim. Genus TUERTA. Type. Tuerta, Wlk. Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 346 (1869) chri/socklora. Misa, Karsch, Ent. Nacb r. 1895, p. 349 memnonia. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed Avitb hair in front, the 3rd roughly scaled ; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennae nearly simple and slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibiai fringed with hair above ; abdomen with dorsal crests except on terminal segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 7 from beyond the areole, 11 from end of cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. (7\certa). Frontal prominence with its lower edge produced to a point. A. Fore wing whitish irrorated with chocolate platensis, B. Fore wing olive-green, with the inner and terminal areas chocolate, a. Fore wing with the inner edge of terminal band angled at middle chrysochlora. h. Fore wing with the inner edge of the terminal band oblique liturata. 158. Tuerta platensis. Kuthisanotia 'platensis. Berg, An. Soc. Argent, xiii. p. 172 (1882); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 39. <5. Head and thorax clothed with chocolate and grey hair ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen yellow mottled with
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