. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. APANTESIS.—CODIOSOMA. 413 or interrupted below the cell, or forking towards costa by being confluent with the postmedial band below the cell, this band being either complete and angled inwards on vein 2, or interrupted below the cell, or not reaching inner margin ; conjoined subterminal spots from costa to vein 4 and a spot from vein 2 to inner margin ; a large apical spot and spots on veins 3, 4. Hind wing orange-yelloAV, the costal and inner areas and the term
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. APANTESIS.—CODIOSOMA. 413 or interrupted below the cell, or forking towards costa by being confluent with the postmedial band below the cell, this band being either complete and angled inwards on vein 2, or interrupted below the cell, or not reaching inner margin ; conjoined subterminal spots from costa to vein 4 and a spot from vein 2 to inner margin ; a large apical spot and spots on veins 3, 4. Hind wing orange-yelloAV, the costal and inner areas and the terminal area irregularly suffused with scarlet; a medial black band usually present from costa to median nervure, sometimes with a spot below it on vein 1 ; a sub- terminal band from costa to vein 4, often spots on veins 2 and 1, and sometimes one or two points on middle of termen. Ab. 1. esperi. Fore wing with the medial and postmedial bands entirely conjoined. Ab. 2. oherthun. Hind wing crimson, with some yellow on costal area and round the black spots. Hah. S. EuKOPE, S. France, Zeller and Frey Colls., Spain, Portugal. , (S 50, $ 56 millim. Larva. Black-brown ; the hair from the lateral warts rufous. Genus CODIOSOMA. Type. Kodiosoma, Stretch, Zjg. & Bomb. N. Am. i. p. 67 (1872) fulva. Proboscis absent; palpi porrect, reaching well beyond the frontal tuft and clothed with long hair ; antennse of male bipectinate, the branches very short towards base ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long woolly hair; tibiae with the spurs very short. Fore wing elongate, narrow; vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10,11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from or from close to angle of cell; 5 from above angle or from angle, rarely shortly stalked with 4; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 from middle of cell. 1970. Codiosoma fulva. Kodiosoma fulva, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 67, pi. 2. f. 7 (1872) Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 244. K
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