. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. (J42 ;. Genus MICROXESTIS, nov. Type, M. vtiizdorffi. , „ o j • • ^ rVobnecis fully cIcTeloped ; palpi upturned to vertex of bead, tbe 2nd joint moderately i-caled, tlie 3id short; Irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenuaj of male ciliated; Lead and thorax smoothly clothed with scales and without crests; tibiie slightly fringed with hair on outer side; abdomen smoothly scaled.' Fore wing with lobe and scale-tooth on middle of inner margin, then excised the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. (J42 ;. Genus MICROXESTIS, nov. Type, M. vtiizdorffi. , „ o j • • ^ rVobnecis fully cIcTeloped ; palpi upturned to vertex of bead, tbe 2nd joint moderately i-caled, tlie 3id short; Irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenuaj of male ciliated; Lead and thorax smoothly clothed with scales and without crests; tibiie slightly fringed with hair on outer side; abdomen smoothly scaled.' Fore wing with lobe and scale-tooth on middle of inner margin, then excised the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 0 from' below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed from above angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. ^"7092. Microxestis vutzdorfl&. Evxestis umizdwffi, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 223, pi. vii. fig. 5 (1907). f^ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous: the antemedial line represented by a faint oblique pale shade ; a faint rufous medial shade, oblique below the cell; a minute black discoidal point; postmedial line very indistinct, fine, rufous, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold and. Fig. 2G0.—Microxestis vufziloi-ffi, c?. \. incurved below vein 4, some small whitish spots beyond it on costa ; a small Avhitish subapical spot with black point on its outer edge. Hind wing white, the terminal area faintly tinged with rufous ; cilia white; the underside white with the costal area faintly tinged with rufous. JIah. Palestine, Jordan, type t iu Coll. Golschmann. Exp. 10 millim. Genus ARCYOPHOKA. lype. Arcyophora, Guen. 1soq{. ii. p. 378 (1?'>2) longivalvis. Eiixesiis, Led. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. vi. p. 88 (18(i9) dcntula. Pseudocaipe, Ilmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 56G (1894) deniula. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd join
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