. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ;i4 K"OC'rUlD^. 1 cT, Periripacheram {Yerhunj). 1 cJ; Burma, Sahveen, 1 9? Singapore {Ridley^ Wood-Jones), 1 cJ, 3 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 3 J type ; Labuan {Everett), 1 J • Exp. 24-32 millim. Pao-e 584. Genus XANTHOLEPIS, nov. Type, A', dicycla. Pioboscis 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 ; antenna
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ;i4 K"OC'rUlD^. 1 cT, Periripacheram {Yerhunj). 1 cJ; Burma, Sahveen, 1 9? Singapore {Ridley^ Wood-Jones), 1 cJ, 3 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 3 J type ; Labuan {Everett), 1 J • Exp. 24-32 millim. Pao-e 584. Genus XANTHOLEPIS, nov. Type, A', dicycla. Pioboscis 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 ; antenna of female almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, tlie metathorax Vfith oppressed crest; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 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 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3452 h. Xantholepis dicycla. Acontia diajcla, Wlk. xxxv. 1964 (181)6); Hmpsn. Mollis Ind. ii. p. 338. 2 . Head and thorax sulpliur-yellow mixed with cupreous red ; palpi, lower part of frons, and antennae except basal joint red- brown; patagia red; pectus white; tibiae and tarsi banded red- brown and yellow; abdomen white tinged with red-brown at. Fig. 243.—Xantholepis dicycla, 2. \. extremity, the basal crest yellow. Fore wing sulphur-yellow; a small subbasal cupreous red annulus on costa; a curved diffused cupreous red antemedial band with small yellow spots on it at costa and below the cell; reniform a ligure-of-eight shaped mark di-fincd by red; postmedial line minutel}' dentate, angled outwards at discal fold, then inwards to reniform, the area bejond it cupreous red with small yellow spots just beyond it
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