. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XANTHOTHKIX. APAUSTIS. 469 4953. Xantliothrix ranunculi. XantJiofhrix ranunculi, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., Pac. Coast Lep no •''9 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. d". Head and thorax olive-yellow with some fuscous hair on vertex of thorax ; antenute fuscous ; palpi with some hlack hau's ; abdomen olive-yellow with some fuscous towards base, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing olive-yellow with a few fuscous scales. Hind wing olive-yellow irrorated with fuscous brown, the costal. Fig. 226.—Xanthofhrix ramoic
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XANTHOTHKIX. APAUSTIS. 469 4953. Xantliothrix ranunculi. XantJiofhrix ranunculi, H. Edw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., Pac. Coast Lep no •''9 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 290. d". Head and thorax olive-yellow with some fuscous hair on vertex of thorax ; antenute fuscous ; palpi with some hlack hau's ; abdomen olive-yellow with some fuscous towards base, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing olive-yellow with a few fuscous scales. Hind wing olive-yellow irrorated with fuscous brown, the costal. Fig. 226.—Xanthofhrix ramoiculi, c?. j. area and the termen to vein 2 suffused with brown. Underside olive-yellow; fore wing irrorated with brown except on marginal areas; hind wing with some brown irroration on basal and inner areas. $ . Head, thorax, and fore wing much browner and less yellow. Uah. ,California, Havilah, 3c?,3$. ^vp. 22-24 millim. Genus APAUSTIS. Type. Apausils, Hiibn. Vevz. p. 258 (1827) rupicola. Heliodes, Guen. Ann. Soc. But. Fr. x. p. 61 (1841) rupicola. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and fringed with long hair below; frons with large round corneons prominence with raised edges and truncate process in middle, a corneous plate below it; eyes small, reniform ; antennie of male ciliated; thorax clothed with rouo-h hair overlaying scales and without crests ; tibiae fringed with long hair, the fore tarsi with the joints very short and the ungues large; abdomen sparsely clothed with long hair but without crests. Fore wing the apex somewhat produced, the teruien obliquely curved and not crcnulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind vviiig with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the cilia chequered black-brown and wh
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