Syn. Phalæna (Attacus) Laocoon, Drury. Cramer, pl. 117. B.?
Habitat: Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
Upper Side. Antennæ brown, and filiform. Head brown, with two white spots beneath the antennæ. Thorax cream-coloured, with a red-brown spot arising at the head. Abdomen red-brown, with cream-coloured rings. Wings red-brown; the anterior ending along the external edges in a greyish brown, where there is a row of faint cream-coloured crescents; at the shoulders there is also a round cream-coloured spot, and in the middle, near the anterior edges, is another large patch of that colour, with darker marks thereon; several other spots are likewise dispersed on these wings. Posterior wings, along the external edges, grey brown; but next the body cream-coloured, with a row of faint cream-coloured crescents along the bottom, and two small spots on the abdominal edges.
Under Side. Breast and legs red-brown; the two fore legs having two cream-coloured spots on the fore joints. Abdomen red-brown, and cream intermixed. Wings, next the body, cream-coloured, but towards their extremities red-brown, more strongly marked than on the upper side. Margins of the wings entire.
ARCTIA? MENEA.
Plate [III]. fig. 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Arctiidæ, Stephens.
Genus. Arctia? Schrank. Callimorpha, Latr.? Phalæna (Noctua), Drury.
Arctia? Menea. Flava, alis anticis basi, fasciâ latâ mediâ apiceque margineque postico posticarum nigris. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.)
Syn. Phalæna (Noctua) Menea, Drury, App. vol. 3.