. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MYDROPASTEV. 327 moderate; thorax woolly; abdomen slender and dorsally clothed with rough liair at base. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex produced; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 horn angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 2 and 4 stalked, 3 from 2 near margin ; 5 obsolescent from angle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. Antennae fringed with rough scales above. 720. Mydropastea cephalena.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. MYDROPASTEV. 327 moderate; thorax woolly; abdomen slender and dorsally clothed with rough liair at base. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex produced; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 horn angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 2 and 4 stalked, 3 from 2 near margin ; 5 obsolescent from angle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle. Sect. I. Antennae fringed with rough scales above. 720. Mydropastea cephalena. Eup^i/m cephalena, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 372, pi. 30. f. 2; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 124. 5 . Head and thorax black ; frons, tegiilae, and shoulders with white points; pectus and coxse with white patches; abdomen. P'ig. 149.—Mz/dropastea cephalena, cf. ]. metallic blue-green, with cupreous subdorsal patches ; a pure white dorsal band on 1st segment and lateral fasciae; wings black- brown. Fore wing with the basal half of costal area suffused witii golden green and the inner area below the cell to near termen ; a white point at base ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch below base of vein 2 ; a small spot in upper end of cell ; two spots between veins 3 and 5, and a spot above vein 6 with a point below it. Hind wing with elongate hyaline patch below the cell and a large spot beyond the cell. Hab. Colombia, 1 c^; Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley). Kvp. 44 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. Sect. II. Antenn;^ not fringed with rough scales abov A. Fore wing with hyaline spots. a. Abdomen with lateral and sublateral white spots i^ylra. b. Abdomen with sublateral white fasciae; tibiie streaked with white sahnoni. B. Fore wing without hyaline spots. a. Fore wing suffused with metallic blue ; tegulaj and base of abdomen pure white alhicincta. b. Fore wing suffused with golden green. a^. Abdomen with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of bluish-white points haechans. b^. Abdomen with subdorsal ser
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