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Show 1878.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM JAMAICA. 493 127. DESMIA ORBALIS, Guenee, Delt. p. 192. n. 128 (1854). 128. DESMIA PROGNEALIS, Walker, Lep. Het. xvii. p. 346. n. 22 (1859). 129. SAMEA CHLOROPHASMA, n. sp. Wings hyaline, slightly yellowish, with stramineous borders; outer border spotted with rust-red; primaries with three mustard-yellow irregular lines across the basal area, followed by a straight golden brown transverse line, then a stramineous belt margined with brown, followed by a quadrate spot of the same character at the end of the cell (its inner edge continued as a single line to internal margin) ; an angulated brown discal line, terminating at inner margin in a rusty reddish spot: secondaries with a black-edged stramineous discocellular spot, from which a brown line runs obliquely to inner margin ; an angulated brown discal line, terminating at anal angle in a quadrate rusty reddish spot: thorax stramineous, streaked with mustard-yellow; abdomen testaceous. Wings below altogether paler than above, the markings less distinct; body below silvery white ; palpi yellow; legs cream-coloured. Expanse 10 lines. A delicate golden-looking little species. 130. AGATHODES MONSTRALIS, Gue'ne'e, Delt. p. 209. n. 165 (1854). 131. HYMENIA PERSPECTALIS, Hiibner, Ex. Schm. Zutr. fi°\ 101. 132. CONCHYLODES DirHTHERALIS, Hiibner, Ex. Schm. Zutr. figs. 691, 692. 133. PHAKELLURA HYALINATA, Linn. Syst. Nat. iii. 2, p. 873 (1766). 134. PHAKELLURA NITIDALIS, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 371. fig. F (1782). Mr. Bowrey says that he found the species of Phakellura feeding upon the flowers of gourds. 135. MARGARONIA QUADRISTIGMALIS, Guenee, Delt. p. 304. n. 319(1854). 136. BOTYS BUTYROSA, n. sp. Wings dull lemon-yellow: primaries with the costa sericeous, a feeble opaline tint beyond the middle, an angular pale brown line across the basal third, and a sickle-shaped pale brown line across the disk ; marginal line tawny : secondaries with opaline costal area; marginal line tawny : head and prothorax yellow; rest of the body shining creamy white; abdomen with a yellow dorsal line ; projecting frontal tuft white; palpi brown above, white below. Body below pearly white; legs pearly white, with the femora and the anterior tibiae brown ; wings below opaline. Expanse 1 inch 7 lines. |
