. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. OXICESTA. 113 hair only, the metathorax with double crest, the patagia with curled-up hair at extremity; tibiit frino;ed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, a large crest on basal segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 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
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. OXICESTA. 113 hair only, the metathorax with double crest, the patagia with curled-up hair at extremity; tibiit frino;ed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, a large crest on basal segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 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 cell near base only. A. Hind wing of male white with brown postmedial line and subterminal band geographica. B. Hind wing of male uniform fuscous brown cJiaracenices. 2212. Oxicesta geographica. Noetiia qeoqraphica, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 167 (1787); Boisd. Ic. pi. 65. f. 5; i)up. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 84. f. 5; Frr. Neue Beitr. vii. pi. 638; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. liomhyx austera, Scriba, Beitr. Ins. p. 176, pi. 7. f. 5 (1791) ; Esp. Schmett. 191. ff. 4-6(1796). Bombyx sericina, Hubn. Beitr. ii. 1, pi. 4. f. Y (1827). Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with pale rufous; palpi at sides, tegulte at middle and outer edge of tegitlae and patagia â dark rufous ; abdomen yellowish white suffused with dark brown. Fore wing yellowish white, the basal and postmedial areas suffused with rufous, the latter extending to termen below veins 6 and 3; the basal part of medial area suffused with rufous extending to just before postmedial line beyond and below lower angle of cell ; subbasal line oblique defined by white on inner side and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line double except towards costa, dark brown filled in with white, slightly angled outwards below costa. Fig. 28.â Oxicesta geograpldca,, c?. \. and in cell and inwards below cell, then outwardly oblique, an oblique dark brown mark beyond it in cell; traces of a pale discoidal
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