. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 220 ARCTIAD.^. *459. Conilepia nigricosta. (Eonhtis nigricosta, Leech, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 598, pi. 30. f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 335. S. Head black, with patches of metallic blue; veitex of head, thorax,and abdomen orangx- 3'ellow ; tibiae, tarsi, and parts of femora and fore coxae metallic blue. Fore M'iug clothed with powdery white scales ; the costa metallic blue; the base, inner margin, and terminal 'F\^2.—Co7ulepia nigricosta, S' k- area orange-yellow. Hind wing pale orange-yellow, with short brown fas
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 220 ARCTIAD.^. *459. Conilepia nigricosta. (Eonhtis nigricosta, Leech, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 598, pi. 30. f. 11 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 335. S. Head black, with patches of metallic blue; veitex of head, thorax,and abdomen orangx- 3'ellow ; tibiae, tarsi, and parts of femora and fore coxae metallic blue. Fore M'iug clothed with powdery white scales ; the costa metallic blue; the base, inner margin, and terminal 'F\^2.—Co7ulepia nigricosta, S' k- area orange-yellow. Hind wing pale orange-yellow, with short brown fascia in terminal half of cell. Hah. Japan, type t J in Coll. Leech. Exp. 40 raillim. Genus LITHOSIA. ^ Type. Lithosia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 459 (1798) quadra. | Setina, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (2) p. 165 (1802) quadra. Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi upturned, reaching middle of frons and clothed with rough hair ; frons rounded ; antenna? with cilia and bristles ; tibijE with the spurs rather short; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing long and narrow, the termen short; 2 from before middle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle or shortly stalked ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 9 given off from 10 and anastomosing wilh 8 to form the areole, 7 Irom end of areole ; 11 oblique. Hind wiig with vein 2 from middle of cell; 3,4 stalked ; 5 absent; 6, 7 stalked in female, coincident in male ; 8 from middle of cell. A. Fore wing of male with the costa black with yellow fascia below it suheostcola. E. Fore wing of male wilh the costa greyish quadra. *460. Lithosia subcosteola. (Plate XXIV. fig. 15.) Lithosia subcosteola, Druce, A. M. jV. H. (7) iv. p. 200 (1899). S . Head black, the vertex orange-yellow ; thorax and abdomen yellow ; fore and mid tibise and tarsi black above. Fore wing fuscous black with a purplish tinge ; the base and a subcostal fascia yellow, the latter expanding at apex ; the costal edge fuscous, tinged with metallic green on basal half; so
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