. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. rsliUUELYDXA, 523 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell oi- stalked ; 5 fully developed from just above angle; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the ctU near base onlj'. Sect. I. Hind tibia of male very short, the medial spurs absent, the 1st joint of tarsus very long and dilated, fringed with long hair on outer side; fore wing with the termen excised below apex. 6895. Pseudelydna xanthia. Carca ocantJiia, Ilmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 213 (1902). Head and thorax orange-yellow ; palpi whit
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. rsliUUELYDXA, 523 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell oi- stalked ; 5 fully developed from just above angle; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the ctU near base onlj'. Sect. I. Hind tibia of male very short, the medial spurs absent, the 1st joint of tarsus very long and dilated, fringed with long hair on outer side; fore wing with the termen excised below apex. 6895. Pseudelydna xanthia. Carca ocantJiia, Ilmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 213 (1902). Head and thorax orange-yellow ; palpi white in front, red at sides ; antenna3 brown ; metathoracic crest crimson ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi red; abdomen orange, the crests brown, the ventral surface white at base. Fore wing orange-yellow, irrorated with a few black scales; a black point in base of cell and slight brown marks in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; a black streak on inner margin before middle ; traces of a puuctiform postmedial line, excurved below costa and at. Fig. 200.— xanthia, J. \. middle and incurved at discal and submediau folds ; an obliijue white mark from apex defined by blackish and more or less irro- rated with blackish and au oblique blackish striga at tornus ; cilia rufous, blackish at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow, the terminal area tinged with rufous and the cilia rufous from apex to vein "2 ; the underside with the costal half irrorated with black, a deep rufous triangular patch on terminal area from apex to vein 2. Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing suffused with rufous. Hah. J^iKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 J, 1 $ type; Singapore {liidley), 1 (5,1 $ . L\vp. 38-40 millim. Sect. II. Hind tibite of male of normal length, the femora of male with tufts of black liair, the tibise and tarsal joints fringed with long hair in both sexes. 6896. Pseudelydna rufoflava. Xanthia rufoflava, Wlk. x. 467 (185G); Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 42
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