. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. POLIOl'ASl'KA. , 337 cf. Head and thorax blue-black; 1st joint of palpi, f'rons, and tej2;ul8e with paired bluisli-white points; fore coxa; with bluish- white patches ; bind tibicc with the tufts ochreous; abdomen with bluish-white dorsal segmental points, all except 1st segment with dorsal bands of naked ochreous membrane; a lateral series of bluish-white points. Fore wing black suffused with deep green. Hind wing blue-black, with wedge-shaped hyaline patch below the cell, bidentate at extremity. Hah. Venezuela, Merida. Exp. 5
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. POLIOl'ASl'KA. , 337 cf. Head and thorax blue-black; 1st joint of palpi, f'rons, and tej2;ul8e with paired bluisli-white points; fore coxa; with bluish- white patches ; bind tibicc with the tufts ochreous; abdomen with bluish-white dorsal segmental points, all except 1st segment with dorsal bands of naked ochreous membrane; a lateral series of bluish-white points. Fore wing black suffused with deep green. Hind wing blue-black, with wedge-shaped hyaline patch below the cell, bidentate at extremity. Hah. Venezuela, Merida. Exp. 54 millim. Typof in Coll. Dognin. Sect. II. Hind legs of male normal. A. Wings greenish, with the veins blue viridis. B. Wings unilbrm dark le;iden grej. a. Abdomen with metiiUic green on ventral valve and white spot behind it; cilia wjiite at tips plumhea. b. Abdomen coucolorous below; antennsB white at tips obscura. *742. Poliopastea viridis. (Plate XII. fig. 27.) Chloropsinus viridis, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 380; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 15(i. S. Head and thorax black ; 2nd joint of palpi, coxae, and 1st joint of tarsi with white points; abdomen dark blue-grey, with ventral series of white points; wings grey suffused with iridescent greenish, the veins with dark blue. Fore wing with white point at base of costa. Hah. Eci}AD0"K, Chiguinda {Bxu-ldeij). Exp. 44 millim. Typef in Coll. Druce. 743. Poliopastea plumbea, n. sp, (Plate XII. fig. 26.) S. Dark leaden grey; frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, and legs with patches of metallic blue; abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of metallic blue spots; the ventral valve blue edged with white, and with white patch behind it. Fore wing with blue spot at base ; the cilia white towards tornus. Hind wing with the cilia white. Hah. La. Amazons, Parantins {Austen), 1 S type. Exp. 26 millim. 744. Poliopastea obscura. Tipulodcs obscura, Wallengr. Wien. Ent. Men. iv. p. 40 (1860); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 129. Chloropsinus nox, Druce, A.
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