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NEW DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOUTH AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. G. Weeks Jr.
A. G. Weeks Jr.
Affiliation:
Boston, Mass.
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Extract

Habitat: Bogata district, Colombia. Expanse: 1.50 inches.

Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen above, dark mouse colour; beneath, nearly white. Between the eyes are three white dots. Antennæ black. Legs grayish white.

Upper side of fore wing dark mouse colour. There is a broad prominent yellowish-white band extending from costa down to submedian nervure, its inner edge straight, the outer edge swelling outwards somewhat. The interspaces between this distinctive band and the hind margin, also the interspaces upwards towards costa, are heavily dusted with light monse-coloured scales. The nervures and nervules are nearly black. The hind margin bears a slight hairy fringe and a very slight darkish thread.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 33 , Issue 12 , December 1901 , pp. 321 - 324
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1901

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