. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PROXEXUS. 4;!l points oil the veins, 1)eiit out winds below cost;i niid oliliqiie below vein 4 ; the veins of terminal area with slight ])ale streaks : a terminal scries of black points. Hind wing Avhite, the apical area. Fig. lis. — hospes, c^. \. slightly tinged with brownish ochreons ; the underside with the apical half of costal area irroratod with brown. Ilab. Fea:nce, Leech Coll.; Spain ; Italt ; Sicily ; Dal- MATiA. Evp. 30 millim. Larva. Hffm. Eaiip. p. 298. Greyish yellow, the ventral surface whitish ; d
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PROXEXUS. 4;!l points oil the veins, 1)eiit out winds below cost;i niid oliliqiie below vein 4 ; the veins of terminal area with slight ])ale streaks : a terminal scries of black points. Hind wing Avhite, the apical area. Fig. lis. — hospes, c^. \. slightly tinged with brownish ochreons ; the underside with the apical half of costal area irroratod with brown. Ilab. Fea:nce, Leech Coll.; Spain ; Italt ; Sicily ; Dal- MATiA. Evp. 30 millim. Larva. Hffm. Eaiip. p. 298. Greyish yellow, the ventral surface whitish ; dorsal line whitish ; subdorsal and stigmatal lines red-brown ; stigmata yellowish with dark rings ; head brown. Food-plants : PlantcKjo and low-growing herbs. 6-8. 4118. Proxenus xaiitholopha. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 14.) Caraclrina xantlwlopha, Hiiipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 305 (1902). Head and thorax fuscous brown tinged with reddish and mixed with grey ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; mid and hind tibiae of male fringed with whitish hair; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the basal segments in male with lateral fringes of white hair and the genitcil tufts yellowish white. Pore wing reddish brown sntfused with fuscous and mixed with grey; traces of a waved dark antemedial line bent inwards to oosta; orbicular a black point; reniforra a small lunnle slightly defined by blackish: traces of a blackish postmedial line bent out- wards below costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4, the veins beyond it with dark streaks ; traces of a subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal sei'ies of black points with some pale scales between them. Hind wing white, the apical area tinged with fuscous ; cilia tinged with fuscous towards apex ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. Hah. Traxsvaal, White 11. {Coolce), 1 S ', Xatal, Estcourt (Hvfchinson), 1 § ; C. Coloxy, Transkei {2Jiss
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