. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XAXTHIEIA, 245 laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed wilh hair and scales mixed, the pro- tlioras witliout crest, the uietathorax with spreading crest, the pata^ia curled ii|)\vards at extremities; tibijc smoothly scaled, the fore tibiae with small curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. Pore wing witii the apex somewhat produced and acute, the term-m evenly curved and not creniihite ; veins 3 and 5 t'rom near angle of cell; 6 from npper angle ; 'J Irom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 frot
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XAXTHIEIA, 245 laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed wilh hair and scales mixed, the pro- tlioras witliout crest, the uietathorax with spreading crest, the pata^ia curled ii|)\vards at extremities; tibijc smoothly scaled, the fore tibiae with small curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. Pore wing witii the apex somewhat produced and acute, the term-m evenly curved and not creniihite ; veins 3 and 5 t'rom near angle of cell; 6 from npper angle ; 'J Irom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 frotn cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; o obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near ba^e only. 4G24. XantMria primulina. Metopniila primulina, Driice, Biol. , Het. i. p. oOo, pi. £8. f. 10 (1880). (S. Head, teguliie, and front of thorax bright yellow, the rest of thorax deep lufous ; palpi, froiis, antennae, pectus, and legs tinged with rufous, the sides of frons dark brown: antennaa 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 suhbasal black point in cell ; an ante- medial black point in upper part of cell; the orbicular rcpi'esented. Fig. 90. -Xdn^hiriu priinuJiiia, (^. \. by two black points, the reniform by two points 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 obliqtiely 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[)ccially on terminal area, traces of a diffused curved postmedial line. Hah. Mexico, Guerrero, Oinilteme
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