Euchlaenidia ockendeni Rothschild, 1910

Rothschild, W. (1910). Catalogue of the Arctianae in the Tring Museum, with
notes and descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae 17 (1): p. 75
(figured in vol. 18 (1911), pl. 6, fig. 10).

735. E. ockendeni spec. nov.

♀. Pectus and legs dark fuscous; palpi yellow, last joint black; frons yellow
with large central black patch; antennae black; collar yellow; thorax black-
brown; abdomen above orange-buff with broad central dorsal black band.

Forewing black-brown with the veins buff; a broad oblique outwardly curved buffy
orange band reaches from the costa across end of cell to just before tornus.

Hindwing orange, a border of black from before termen to tornus; this border is
very broad from termen to vein 4, then very narrow to vein 2, and again broad
from vein 2 to tornus.

Length of forewing: 22 mm.

Hab. La Union, Carabaya.

1 ♀.

Hampson, G. F. (1920). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, Supplement 2: p. 316. As Euchlaenidia occendeni.

*1562 b. Euchlaenidia occendeni.
Euchlaenidia ockendeni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 75 (1910), & xviii. pl. 6. f.
10.

♀. Head and thorax dark brown; palpi at base, sides of frons, and a patch on
vertex of head yellow; pectus yellow; legs brown, the femora streaked with
whitish; abdomen yellow with broad dorsal black-brown fascia, the ventral
surface black-brown with patches of yellow on 1st three segments, the two
following segments fringed with some yellow scales. Fore wing dark brown, the
veins, discal and submedian folds with slight pale streaks: a slightly curved
yellow band from costa beyond middle to inner margin near tornus towards which
it narrows slightly. Hind wing yellow: a black terminal band expanding widely on
apical area and below vein 2, narrow between veins 1 and 2.

Hab. Peru, Carabaya, R. Huacamayo, La Union (Ockenden), type† ♀ in Coll.
Rothschild. Exp. 42 millim.

Seitz, A. (1919). Euchlaenidia. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 299, pl. 38 f (German
edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 299).

E. ockendeni Rothsch. (38 f) from Peru likewise resembles transcisa, but the
light transverse band in the forewing is steeper, and the black in the apical
and anal parts of the hindwing is narrower.

The paragraph referred to, same page:

E. transcisa Wkr. (38 g). Forewings brown with a dull yellowish transverse band
across the cell-end; hindwing orange, with a black marginal band being widened
in the apical area. Rio de Janeiro; rare.