. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 220 ar'tiad-t:. *45'J. Conilepia nigricosta. (?:onh/i» nuiricosta, Leeoli, V. Z. iS. ]«88, p. 5'J8, pi. 30. f. 11 ; Kirby, Car. J let. p. 'S'6i>. d . Head bhuk, Avith patches of metallic blue ; vertex of head, thorax,and abdomen orangi - jellow ; tibia;, tarsi, and parts of femora aud fore coxa; metallic blue. Pore Aviug clothed with powdery white scales ; the costa metallic blue; the base, inner margin, and terminal area orange-yellow. Hind wing pale orange-yellow,. 139.—Conilepia nigricosta, J. with short brown fascia in t
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 220 ar'tiad-t:. *45'J. Conilepia nigricosta. (?:onh/i» nuiricosta, Leeoli, V. Z. iS. ]«88, p. 5'J8, pi. 30. f. 11 ; Kirby, Car. J let. p. 'S'6i>. d . Head bhuk, Avith patches of metallic blue ; vertex of head, thorax,and abdomen orangi - jellow ; tibia;, tarsi, and parts of femora aud fore coxa; metallic blue. Pore Aviug clothed with powdery white scales ; the costa metallic blue; the base, inner margin, and terminal area orange-yellow. Hind wing pale orange-yellow,. 139.—Conilepia nigricosta, J. with short brown fascia in terminal half of cell. Ilah. Japan, type t J in Coll. Leech. Exp. 40 millim. Genus LITHOSIA. rj; Lithosia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 450 (179S) ISitina, Scbrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (2) p. 165 (1802) quadra. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reacbing middle of frons and clotbed witb rougb bair ; frons rounded; antenuK with cilia and bristles ; tibiiB witb the spurs ralber short; abdomen clotbed witl: rougb hair. Fore wing long and narrow, the termeii short; 2 from before middle of cell ; 3, 4 t'roni angle or sboi-tlv stalked ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 9 given oil' from 10 aud anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 Irom end of areole ; 11 oblique, lliud wii g with vein 2 from middle of cell ; .'5, 4 stalked; 5 absent; 0, 7 stalked iu female, coincident in male ; 8 from middle of cell. A. Fore wing of male the costa black with yellow fascia below it ' sulcosicola. 13. Fore wing of male with the costa greyish quadra. *460. Lithosia subcosteola. (Plate XXIV. fig, 15.) Lithosia subcosteola, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iv. p. 200 (1899). (S . Head black, the vertex orange-yellow ; thorax and abdomen vellow ; fore and mid tibiic and tarsi black above. Fore wing "fiKscous black with a purplish tinge ; the base and a subcostal fascia yellow, the latter exjianding at apex ; the costal edge fuscous, tinged Avith metallic green on ba
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