. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 368 ^fOCTUID.'E. 4819. Oxythres splendens. Oxyihrcs splendens., Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) v. p. 517 (1900). Head fuscous with some rufous between antennoe; palpi rufous, the 3rd joint black; antennge tinged with purplish; thorax white tinged with pale purplish brown ; pectus in front and legs fuscous, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomenwhitisli tinged with fuscous, the sides blackish, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pinkish white, the interspaces suffused with chestnut-red except on costal area, deepest in cell and paler to
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 368 ^fOCTUID.'E. 4819. Oxythres splendens. Oxyihrcs splendens., Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) v. p. 517 (1900). Head fuscous with some rufous between antennoe; palpi rufous, the 3rd joint black; antennge tinged with purplish; thorax white tinged with pale purplish brown ; pectus in front and legs fuscous, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomenwhitisli tinged with fuscous, the sides blackish, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing pinkish white, the interspaces suffused with chestnut-red except on costal area, deepest in cell and paler towards inner margin and termen, the costal edge red ; antemedial line obsolete on costal area, then chestnut, double filled in with whitish, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin; orbicular and reniform with vrhitish annuli and. Fig. 1G6.âOxythres splendens, S â \. white lines in centres, the former oblique elliptical extending to well below cell, the latter rather S-shaped; five luiiulate ^vhitish lines on terminal half, obsolete on costal area and oblique below vein 4 ; a triangular black patch on costa towards apes ; cilia whitish. Hind wing pure semihyaline white with some fuscous on costa at apex. Underside of fore wing white, the costal area suffused wdth pink to subr-erminal line with fuscous suffusion below it to submedian fold, a diflPused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, red on costal area, then blackish, a diffused blackish subterminal curved band from costa to vein 2 ; hind wing with fuscous marks on costa at middle and towards apex. Hah. Colombia, 1 $ ; Peru, in Coll. Dognin, Exp. cS 44, $ 48 millim. Type f in Coll. Druce. Genus EUTERPIA. Type. Enterpia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1850, p. 235 laudcti. EuierpAa, Guen. Isoct. ii. p. 171 (1S52) laudeti. Proboscis fully developed; palpi' obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching middle of frons and fringed with rather long hair in front
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