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4445. Euiarginea gammophora. 



Eiiiarffiiica ffammojjhora, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 289, pi. 14. f. 1 (1852). 



(5. Head white; iialpi^ bUick exce])t at tips; antennae black 

 exci'pt at base ; thorax deep velvety black, the metathorax bright 

 rufous iuid white : mid and hind tibia) with Avhite patches, the 

 tarsi with the 1st three joints white ; abdomen black-brown, the 

 basal crest white, the lateral fringes and ventral surface white. 

 Eore wing white, extending on costa to near middle and below the 

 cell to jxistniedial line, the basal area suffused with orange, the 

 terminal half black suffused Avith leaden grey leaving a white 

 wedge-shaped apical patch extending to vein 4 and tinged with 

 fulvous yellow on lower half and a rounded fulvous-yellow patch 



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Fig. 32. — Emarginea gammophora, ^. \. 



at tornus ; a black streak below median nervure curved up to base 

 of costa and a short streak above base of inner margin ; slight 

 subbasal and antemedial black striae from costa ; a medial fulvous 

 striga from costa near inner edge of the black area, followed by a 

 whitish patch centred with fulvous and with black streak on costa 

 and an obliqiie white bar from its lower edge to tlie white area at 

 median nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, black slightly defined 

 by whitish scales on outer side, oblique and minutely waved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved and defined by white on outer side, 

 a white striga beyond it on costa and a black striga on the apical 

 patch ; some slight fuscous suffusion on the fulvous patch at tornus ; 

 a terminal series of black striae ; cilia chequered black and white. 

 Hind wing pure white slightly tinged with brown at apex and on 

 termen ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with a few 

 black scales. 



5 . Fore wing with black patch at base with curved outer 

 edge conjoined at costa to the medial black area, the curved white 

 mark at end of cell reduced ; hind wing with rather more brown 

 on terminal urea. 



]Iah. Centr. Brazil, Chapada {A. Bohcri), 1 J ; S. Brazil, 

 Castro ParaMa ; Uruguay. Kvj^. 22 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 9 present. 



A. Fore wjjig with vein 7 IVoin beyond 10. 



a. Fore wing oriinge witli the anlemedial and inner medial 



areas wh i te oleaghia. 



b. Fore wing pale greenish, the medial and postmedial areas 



suffused with rufous except towards inner margin mphoplaga. 



