. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. XANTHOSPILOPTERTX. 667 70. Xanthospilopteryx pardaliiia. (Plate LII. fig. 18.) Eusemia pardalina, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 329, pi. 5. f. 1 (1869); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. Eusemia ochracea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 142 (1875). Xanthospilopteryx kirhyi, Carpenter, P. Dublin Soc. viii. p. 308 (1893). $ . Head and thorax black ; palpi at sides, gulae, coxae, femora and tibiae at extremity, and tarsal joints with white spots ; sides of frons, back
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. XANTHOSPILOPTERTX. 667 70. Xanthospilopteryx pardaliiia. (Plate LII. fig. 18.) Eusemia pardalina, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 329, pi. 5. f. 1 (1869); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. Eusemia ochracea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 142 (1875). Xanthospilopteryx kirhyi, Carpenter, P. Dublin Soc. viii. p. 308 (1893). $ . Head and thorax black ; palpi at sides, gulae, coxae, femora and tibiae at extremity, and tarsal joints with white spots ; sides of frons, back of head, tegulse, and patagia with ochreous spots ; tibiae with orange patches ; abdomen black, with dorsal orange bands and the anal tutt orange, sublateral and ventral series of ochreous-white spots. Fore wing black ; three small yellow points below basal part of costa, two below the cell and one above vein 1; an antemedial orange-yellow spot extending from just above to just below cell; a small medial spot above vein 1 and elongate spot below it; a quad- rate spot in end of cell and another below base of vein 2 ; an oblique band beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3, its extremities rounded and its inner edge indented at vein 5 ; a spot above tornus; silvery blue marks in and below middle of cell, a discoidii line, and spots on veins 2 and 1; cilia yellowish at apex. Hind wing orange ; a little black at base ; a broad terminal black band, angled inwards at vein 2, with a yellow spot below it most prominent on underside, expanding on apical area and on costa running inwards to base; cilia yellowish at apex. Hah. Congo, 2 $ , type and type ocliracea ; Angola, Kinsembo 1 $ . Eocp. 60 millim. 71. Xanthospilopteryx superha. Eusemia superha, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 141, pi. 13. f. 3 (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. Eusemia imongruens, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 381 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 29. Xanthospilopteryx smithii, HoU. Donaldson Smith's Unknown African Countries, p. 408, f.
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