Sarosa annotata Dognin, 1914

Dognin, P. (1914). Hétérocères nouveaux de l'Amérique du Sud, fascicule 7
(5 February 1914): pp. 3-4. Original description. Translated from the
French original.

Sarosa annotata, sp. nov.

38 mm. -- Palpi and antennae black; head black with metallic blue
reflections on the frons and the crown, the vertex remaining black;
collar black with metallic blue reflections; patagia black, fringed with
yellow on the inner side; thorax orange-yellow; valve black with a large
white spot on each side; upperside of the abdomen orange-yellow, with the
last four rings and the anal tuft black, iridescent in places with
metallic blue; venter black; legs black, the femora and coxae
orange-yellow. Wings hyaline, the veins and borders black. Forewings
with the discocellular black, lunulate, rather narrow; the terminal
border very broad at the apex, re-entering at the tornus on vein 2 and
the fold. Hindwings with the border broader at the apex, the abdominal
margin black. Fringes black.

Popayan, Colombia; one male.

Distinguished from Sarosa notata Butler by the absence of the black spots
on the abdomen and by its last four rings being black.

Hampson, G. F. (1914). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the
British Museum, Supplement vol. 1, Amatidae and Lithosiadae: p. 108,
pl. 5, fig. 24.

*380 a. Sarosa annotata. (Plate V. fig. 24.)

Sarosa annotata, Dogn. Hét. Nouv. Am. Sud, vii. p. 4 (1914).

Male. Head, tegulae, and patagia black-brown, the frons and vertex of
head with some metallic blue; dorsum of thorax yellow; pectus and base of
femora yellow, the rest of legs brown; abdomen with the four basal
segments yellow, the terminal segments black-brown with metallic blue
patches; the ventral surface black-brown with white patches at sides of
ventral valve. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown; a
black-brown discoidal lunule conjoined to the costal fascia; the terminal
band expanding widely towards apex and slightly below vein 2. Hind wing
hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown, the terminal band expanding
somewhat towards apex.

Hab. Colombia, Popayan, type male in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 42 millim.

Draudt, M. (1917). Syntomidae (Additions). In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The
Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and
Sphinges: p. 197, pl. 27 c.

P. 53, line 25, after notata insert:

S. annotata Dogn. (27 c) differs from the form innotata of the preceding
species by blackish-brown shoulder-covers, entirely brown legs and
smaller size; the 4 first abdominal rings are unicolorously yellow, the
others blackish-brown with small blue spots. Expanse of wings: 42 mm.
Colombia.

"The preceding species" is S. notata Btlr., which Draudt describes thus
(p. 53, pl. 11 f):

S. notata Btlr. (= ufentina Druce) (11 f) greatly resembles connotata,
but immediately distinguishable by the black, not orange base of the
forewing, the shoulder-covers being also black-margined. The abdomen
exhibits above a more or less developed row of black, metallic-pupilled
spots which may also be entirely absent: innotata form. nov. (= ab. 1
Hmps.) (11 f). The species occurs in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and
Venezuela (Merida), whilst innotata originates from Ecuador.