. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 448 NOCTTJIDiE. Genus METAXANTHIA, nov. Type, M. cosmopis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porvect to just below frous, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, the 3rd minute; frons with rounded prominence with shght vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna of male serrate; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with tlie apes rounded, the ternien evenly curved and hardly erenulate
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 448 NOCTTJIDiE. Genus METAXANTHIA, nov. Type, M. cosmopis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porvect to just below frous, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, the 3rd minute; frons with rounded prominence with shght vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antenna of male serrate; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with tlie apes rounded, the ternien evenly curved and hardly erenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; ('» 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 4923. Metaxanthia cosmopis. Britha cosmopis, Lower, P. Linn. Soc. xxii. p. 17 (1897). Head fuscous brown, frons pale, antennge rufous; thorax ycUo-vv mixed with red-brown ; fore legs fuscous brown ; mid and hind legs mostly yellow ; abdomen yellow. Fore wing red-brown turning to greyish brown towards costa, the area below submediau fold white turning to yellow then pale rufous towards inner margin ; an oblique black striga from median nervure to submedian fold before middle; a fine white streak beyond the cell below vein 4 and .shorter streak below vein 3 before the obliquely curved black post- medial line running from below apex to submedian fold, the area. Fig. 214.âMetaxanthia cosmopis, c?. \. beyond it yellowish white turning to grey beyond the indistinct fine white obliquely curved subterminal line running from below apex to submedian fold; a fine black terminal line; cilia grey-brown with a dark line through them. Hind wing yellow with fuscous terminal band, broad at costa, narrowing to toruus, its inner edge slightly angled at veins 5 and 1 ; cilia yellowish with a dark li
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