. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. DROEETA. 333 B. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch not extending below vein 4 delectans. C. Fore wing without postmedial black patch. a. Fore wing with dark centre to reniform perplexa. b. Fore wing without dark centre to reniform pk(Sohasis. 5510. Drobeta exscendens. Drobeta exscendens, Wlk. xv. 1755 (1858). $ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests yellowish, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous and yellowish ; subbasa
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. DROEETA. 333 B. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch not extending below vein 4 delectans. C. Fore wing without postmedial black patch. a. Fore wing with dark centre to reniform perplexa. b. Fore wing without dark centre to reniform pk(Sohasis. 5510. Drobeta exscendens. Drobeta exscendens, Wlk. xv. 1755 (1858). $ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests yellowish, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous and yellowish ; subbasal line represented by a slight blackish striga from costa; antemedial line slight, blackish defined on inner side by whitish, irregularlj' sinuous, erect; orbicular with whitish annulus, inwardly oblique elliptical, a large rounded black patch beyond it extending from just below costa to just above inner margin and to postmedial line, which is double at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then defined by whitish on outer side. Fig. 99.— Drobeta, exscendens, J. \- and minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a faint pale waved subterminal line from costa to vein 4 defined on inner side by dentate black marks ; a terminal series of black lunules except at apex, defined on inner side by whitish ; cilia chequered rufous and black. Hind wing dark brown, pale at base, the cilia yellow; the underside whitish tinged with yellow, a slight discoidal lunule and indistinct curved crenulate postmedial line. Uah. Venezuela, 1 5 type. Exp. 34 millim. 5511. Drobeta melagonia, n. sp. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 27.) 2 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous, the tegulse and patagia with some brown ; fore and mid tarsi with blackish bands ; abdo- men brownish ochreous. Fore wing whitish suffused with red- brown and purplish grey and slightly irrorated with black, the outer half of medial area deep black excej)t towards inner margin ; traces of a blackish subbasal line from costa to s
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