. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 002 AECTIAD-E. Ilab. Br. N. Guinea, Collingwood B;u', Haidana (Meek), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 18 millim. *600 6. Scaptesyle violinitens. (Plate XXXI. fig. 32.) Padenodes violinitens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 234 (1912). 8 . Head and tegulse pure white ; thorax golden brown with some white on prothorax and extremities of patagia and metathorax; antennae, frons, palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen golden brown. Fore wing pure white; an oblique golden cupreous medial band with a purple tinge, narrowing at middle and exp
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 002 AECTIAD-E. Ilab. Br. N. Guinea, Collingwood B;u', Haidana (Meek), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 18 millim. *600 6. Scaptesyle violinitens. (Plate XXXI. fig. 32.) Padenodes violinitens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 234 (1912). 8 . Head and tegulse pure white ; thorax golden brown with some white on prothorax and extremities of patagia and metathorax; antennae, frons, palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen golden brown. Fore wing pure white; an oblique golden cupreous medial band with a purple tinge, narrowing at middle and expanding to costa and inner margin, conjoined at costa to the similarly coloured subterminal band, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge curved and leaving the termen narrowly white from apex to vein 2 ; cilia black- brown. Hind wing white with dark brown terminal band narrowing to tornus. Underside of fore wing with the costal and terminal areas dark brown, the medial band not reaching inner margin. Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Kumusi R. (Meek), type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp 16 millim. Page 286. Genus CAPRIMIMA, insert :— Type. Damms, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 259 (1832), non descr. ... elegans. 602 a. Caprimima bougainvillei. Caprimima csendescens, bougainvillei, Roths. Nov. Zool. xii. p. 79 (1905). Antennae of male bipectinated with short brandies. Fore wing with veins 10, 11 well separated. 6 . Head and thorax black shot with green; antenna; at tips,. Fig. 180.—Caprimima bougainvillei, <$, \, fore tibiae in front, and extremities of hind femora white; abdomen I'lac-k. Fore wing black, the basal area shot with green, the ter- minal area with purple ; a bright yellow medial band somewhat constricted in cell; the terminal area with large red patch leaving rather narrow black margins. Hind wing black with triangular yellow patch from middle of costa to above tornus. Hab. Solomon Is., Bougainville {Meek), 1 8 . Exp. 30 Please note that these images are extracted
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