. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XANTHIEIA. 245 laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- thorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest, the patagia curled u|)ward3 at extremities; tibi.'e smoothly sealed, the fore tibite with small curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not crennlate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XANTHIEIA. 245 laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- thorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest, the patagia curled u|)ward3 at extremities; tibi.'e smoothly sealed, the fore tibite with small curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not crennlate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4624. Xanthiria primiilina. Metoponia primuUna, Druee, Biol. , Het. i. p. 303, pi. 28. f. 10 (1889). (S. Head, tegulse, and front of thorax bright yellow, the rest of thorax deep rufous ; palpi, froiis, aiiteunse, pectus, and legs tinged with rufous, the sides of frous dark brown: antennae rufous, ventrally yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright yellow with deep rufous fascia on base of inner margin expanding into slight teeth at middle and extremity ; the costal edge tinged with rufous to beyond middle ; a subbasal black point in cell; an ante- medial black point in upper part of cell; the orbicular represented. Fig. 99. —A'anfhiria priinnli)ia, (^. {. by two black points, the reniform by two ^wints on its inner edge and one beyond upper angle of cell; faint traces of a rufous post- medial line excurved from vein 7 to 4, then obliquely incurved, with a brown point on inner margin ; a subterminal brown point on inner margin. Hind wing yellowish white suffused with brown ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing brown, the costa yellow tinged with rufous ; hind wing white tinged with brown es[)ecially on terminal area, traces of a diffused curved postraedial line. Bah. Mexico, Guerrero, Omilteme (//. B
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