. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 440 3279. Sidemia calidipes. Mamestra calidipes, Guen. Noct. i. p. 189 (1852). Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with fuscous; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with slight black lateral bars ; tegulse with slight black medial line ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the fringes on ventral surface of male pale rufous. Fore wing greyish slightly suffused with rufous ; subbasal line. indistinctly double, curved ; a slight black streak below the cell to the antemedial line, which is indistinctly
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 440 3279. Sidemia calidipes. Mamestra calidipes, Guen. Noct. i. p. 189 (1852). Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with fuscous; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with slight black lateral bars ; tegulse with slight black medial line ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the fringes on ventral surface of male pale rufous. Fore wing greyish slightly suffused with rufous ; subbasal line. indistinctly double, curved ; a slight black streak below the cell to the antemedial line, which is indistinctly double, dentate, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, indistinctly defined by brown, the former elongate elliptical, the latter with slight brown lunule in centre and short black streak from it to postmedial line; an indistinct waved medial line : postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and pro- duced to black and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a carved series of minute whitish lunules, defined on inner side by slight dentate black marks; a terminal series of small triangular black marks ; cilia fuscous intersected with whitish, a punctiform whitish line at base and slight whitish line at middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous narrowing to tornus ; cilia yellowish white with a slight dark line through them except towards tornus ; the under- side with the costa irrorated with brown, a dark postmedial line from costa to vein 6 and subterminal band diffused to termen at apex. Hah. Bkazil, Bahia, Cachimbo (Ptijol), 1 cJ, Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wagner), 2 $ ; Paiugcay, Sapucay {Foster), 4 $. Ewj). 44- 52 millim. 3280. Sidemia hipparion m, Dnice, Biol. , H Head and thorax rufous; palpi blackish at sides; tarsi blaclci
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