Cat. lep. Ph. Brit. Mus. Supp. 1:


507 a. Cosmosoma apennina. (Plate VIII. fig. 15.)
Cosmosoma apennina, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 460 (1905).

Head black ; frons white with black spot; palpiat base and gule
orange ; thorax orange, the patagia above and at extremity and
spots on pro-, meso-, and metathorax black; legs black and orange ;
abdomen orange with dorsal and ventral black bands and lateral
spots, the extremity black. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and
margins black; a small orange patch at base and slight streak
below basal part of costa ; the postmedial part of costa orange ;
orange streaks on vein 6, in discal fold, and on vein 5 from just
bey ond cell and on terminal parts of veins 4, 3; the terminal band
expanding widely at apex and slightly at tornus. Hind wing
hyaline, the veins and margins black ; a little orange at base and
the hair on inner margin orange ; the terminal line “expanding into
a moderate apical pateh.

Hab. S.K. Peru, St. Domingo, 6000 ft. (Ockenden), 5 3
cotype. xp. 30 millim.



AZ NOTE: Cat. Lep. Ph. Brit. Mus. uses a non-standard definition of "tegulae" and "patagia".
From Vol. 1:
"The thorax consists of three segments-the prothorax, bearing the
tegulm or collar-lappets, the patagia or shoulder-lappets, and the
fore legs ..."