. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 448 XOCTriDiE. Genus METAXANTHIA, iiov. Type, M. cosmopis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porvect to just below frons, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, the 3rd minute ; frons with rounded prominence with slight yertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae 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 the apex rounded, the termeu evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; v
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 448 XOCTriDiE. Genus METAXANTHIA, iiov. Type, M. cosmopis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porvect to just below frons, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, the 3rd minute ; frons with rounded prominence with slight yertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennae 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 the apex rounded, the termeu evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; (> from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 fmm cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 from middle of diseocellulars ; 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 yellow mixed Avith red-browu ; fore legs fuscous brown ; mid and hind legs mosth' yellow ; abdomen yellow. Fore wing red-browu turning to greyish brown towards costa, the area below submedian 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.—Metaxanthia cosmopis, (^. \. 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 tornus, its inner edge slightly angled at veins 5 and 1 ; cilia yellowish with a dark line thro
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