. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 514 ^.. 1 cT, Periripacheram {Yerhury)^ 1 J; Burma, Salween, 1 9; Singapore {Ridley, Wood-Jones), 1 (5,35; Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), 3 S tj'pe ; Labuan (£'i'e5Y«), 1 J. £';<.y). 24-32 millim. Page 584. Genus XANTHOLEPIS, nor. Type, X. dicycla. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, hollowed out on inner side and reaching to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate and thickly scaled ; frons oblique below and produced to a transverse corneous ridge at middle; eyes large, round ; antennre
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 514 ^.. 1 cT, Periripacheram {Yerhury)^ 1 J; Burma, Salween, 1 9; Singapore {Ridley, Wood-Jones), 1 (5,35; Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), 3 S tj'pe ; Labuan (£'i'e5Y«), 1 J. £';<.y). 24-32 millim. Page 584. Genus XANTHOLEPIS, nor. Type, X. dicycla. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled, hollowed out on inner side and reaching to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate and thickly scaled ; frons oblique below and produced to a transverse corneous ridge at middle; eyes large, round ; antennre of female almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with appressed crest; tibife moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the aj)ex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with, veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocel- lulars; G, 7 shortlj' stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3452 h. Xantholepis dicycla. Acontia dicycla, Wlk. xsxv. 1964 (18()0); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 338. 2 . Head and thorax sulphur-j-ellow mixed with cupreous red ; palpi, lower part of frons, and antennas except basal joint red- brown ; patagia red ; pectus white ; tibiae and tarsi l)anded red- brown and yellow; abdomen white tinged with red-brown at. Fig. 243.—Xan^holejns dicycla, 5 • !• exti'emity, the basal crest yellow. Fore wing sulphur-yellow; a small subbasal cupreous red anuulus on costa; a curved diflused cupreous red antemedial band with small yeUow spots on it at costa and below the cell; reniform a figure-of-eight shaped mark d()fined by red; postmedial line minutely dentate, angled outwards at discal fold, then inwards to reniform, the area bejond it cupreous red with small yellow spots just
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