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Show 654 SIR G. F. HAMPSON ON THE [June 1 SECT. II. Hind wing with ridge of large erect scales from below middle of cell to outer margin, thickest towards base. (2)fCARCHA VIOLALIS, U. Sp. 2 • Chocolate-brown with a purple tinge. Fore wing with the costal and apical areas suffused with pink; a marginal series of silvery blue spots. Hind wing with the outer margin and base of cilia silvery blue ; a marginal series of black striae; the scales in the ridge with a metallic tinge. Underside of both wings with indistinct curved postmedial line. Hab. Espiritu Santo (Jones). Exp. 24 m m. Genus SANGUESA. Sanguesa, Wlk. xxviii. 440 (1863). Palpi upturned, slender, and reaching just above vertex of head, the 3rd joint minute; frons with a tuft of hair ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; mid and hind tibiae fringed with long hair, the 1st joint of hind tarsus with a large tuft of hair. Fore wing with a tympanic vesicle at base of costa ; the basal half of costa highly arched, then almost straight; the apex rectangular; the outer margin rounded; male with a large tuft of hair from the glandular swelling at base of costa below covering the annular retinaculum ; the frenulum very much thickened and flattened, with a short lower fork ; a thick tuft of hair below median nervure ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free. Hind wdng with the costa lobed near base ; the outer margin rounded from apex to vein 2, then excised to anal angle ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 well separated at origin; the discocellulars highby angled ; 6, 7 shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. Fig. 17. Sanguesa cosmiana, p*. \. Type. (I)ISANGUESA COSMIANA, Wlk. xxviii. 440. Brazil. (2)f SANGUESA DILATATANA, Wlk. xxviii. 437. Brazil. Genus AZAMORA. Azamora, Wlk. xv. 1757 (1858). Torda, Wlk. xxviii. 436 (1863). |