. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. METARCTIA. 145 277. Metarctia caeruleifascia. (Plate V. fig. 13.) Balacra ccerulelfascla, Wlk. vii. 1721 (ISaG); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. Automolis ekrmanni, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. .o35 (1893). 5 . Head scarlet; palpi, antenna?, and a band between antennoD brown; thorax brown; tegute edged with scarlet, patagia and patches on meso- and metathorax scarlet; legs scarlet and brown ; abdomen scarlet, with fuscous bands tinged with metallic blue scales. Fore wing red-brown, with some scarlet marks at base of costa and median nervur
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. METARCTIA. 145 277. Metarctia caeruleifascia. (Plate V. fig. 13.) Balacra ccerulelfascla, Wlk. vii. 1721 (ISaG); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. Automolis ekrmanni, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. .o35 (1893). 5 . Head scarlet; palpi, antenna?, and a band between antennoD brown; thorax brown; tegute edged with scarlet, patagia and patches on meso- and metathorax scarlet; legs scarlet and brown ; abdomen scarlet, with fuscous bands tinged with metallic blue scales. Fore wing red-brown, with some scarlet marks at base of costa and median nervure and some crimson at base of inner area ; small hyaline spots in upper angle of cell, below base of vein 2, and a series of four spots beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7, the two upper larger, some red on terminal area near tornus. Hind wing yellow, crimson towards base ; the cilia fuscous. Both wings with veins 4, 5 from a point. Antennae minutely serrate. Ab. 1. eJirmanni : fore wing with the hyaline spots larger, especially the spots below base of vein 2 and between veins 5 and 6 ; hind wing uniform red. Hah. Sierra Leoxe, 1 2 type; Liberia, type t $ ehrmanni in Coll. Holland. Rvj). 62 millim. 278. Metarctia lateritia. Automolis lateriiia, Aussereur. Schmett. f. 274 (1855); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 221. Anace rubra, Wlk. vii. 1720 (1856). Hehena venom, Wlk. vii. 1723 (1856). Hexaneura cinnamonea, WUgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 164 (1860) • Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 433. Automolis unicolor, Oberth. Ann. Mus. Genov. xv. p. 186 (1880); Kii-by, Cat. Het. p, 221. Automolis kelleni, Snell. Notes Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 1 (1886); Tijd. v. Ent. xxix. p. 224, pi. 8. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221. Bright scarlet; antennae and sides of palpi black; tibige and tarsi black. Fore wing with the interspaces fuscous; veins 4, 5 from a point or shortly stalked. Antennae of female serrate. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the fuscous in interspaces reduced or Fig. 60.—Metarctia lateritia, (^. \. a
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