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AKCTIAD.E. 



1993. Turuptiana obliqua. 



Tuncptiana obliqua, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 19 (1869) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



pp. 235, 590. 

 SalLcBa ochrosterna,^Q\^. Reis. Nov. pi. 101. f. 10(1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 235. 

 Bobinsonia perfecta, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 60 (1884) ; Kirbv, Cab. Het. 



p. 235. 



Head white; palpi and antennae dark brown ; tegulce and thorax 

 dark brown ; patagia white, edged with brown above ; pectus orango ; 

 tibiae and tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen orange, with black-brown 



¥ig. 173. — Turuptiana obliqua, (^ . }- 



segmental lines above and triangular dorsal patch on basal segments ; 

 wings white. Fore wing with brown costal fascia narrowing to a 

 point just before apex; an oblique band from or from just below 

 middle of costal fascia, where it joins a fascia on inner margin from 

 close to base ; cilia usually brown or brown at middle. Hind wing 

 with the inner area more or less completely dark brown. 



Hab. Mexico, 1 d" type, Jalapa (TrujiUo, Hoege), 3 cj" , 4 5 type, 

 Coatepec (Brooks), 1 c? , Grodman-Salvin Coll. Ea^^., d 48, $ 58 

 millim, 



1994. Turuptiana neurophylla. 



AmbrylUs neurophylla, Wlk. vii. 1710 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 217. 

 Ecpantheria hebona, Dognin, Le Naturaliste, 1891, p. 125 ; id. Lep. Loja, 

 p. 87, pi. 9. ff. 1, 2. 



^ . Head and thorax grey- white ; palpi, frons, and antennae 

 black ; tegulae edged with orange, on inner side with black ; patagia 

 edged with orange on outer side, with black on inner ; thorax with 

 dorsal black stripe, and some orange hair on metathorax ; pectus 

 black and orange ; legs black with some grey hair ; abdomen black, 

 with lateral stripes and the anal tuft orange, the ventral surface 

 obscurely banded with grey. Eore wing with the ground-colour 

 white ; an elliptical orange-brown patch below cell and streaks on 

 inner margin, in cell, and above vein 2 ; triangular spots beyond 

 the cell between veins 3 and 6 and a terminal series in the inter- 

 spaces ; an orange streak on subcostal nervure ; black streaks on 

 base of costa and cell; antemedial and medial triangular conjoined 

 patches on costa with lines arising from them, the 1st thicker 



