. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XANTHOPTEHA. SS/ 5996. Xanthoptera botyoides. Xantho'ptera hofyoides, Q-uen. Noct. ii. p. 240 (1852). Xanthoptera alhoflava, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 92 (1862\ Marimatha dinumeratalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1204 (1865); Druce, Biol. Am., Het. i. p. Xanthoptera nigrofimbna, Druce, Biol, , Het. i. p. 316 (part.), nee Guen. Head ochreous white mixed with red-brown ; palpi red-brown, the extremities of 2rid and 3rd joints whitish ; thorax bright yellow; pectus and legs ochreous white mixed with red-brown; abd
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XANTHOPTEHA. SS/ 5996. Xanthoptera botyoides. Xantho'ptera hofyoides, Q-uen. Noct. ii. p. 240 (1852). Xanthoptera alhoflava, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 92 (1862\ Marimatha dinumeratalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1204 (1865); Druce, Biol. Am., Het. i. p. Xanthoptera nigrofimbna, Druce, Biol, , Het. i. p. 316 (part.), nee Guen. Head ochreous white mixed with red-brown ; palpi red-brown, the extremities of 2rid and 3rd joints whitish ; thorax bright yellow; pectus and legs ochreous white mixed with red-brown; abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing bright yellow ; claviform and orbicular represented by black points ; reniform a black point followed by a rounded rUfous spot with some whitish in centre ; traces of a punctiform rufous postmedial line, oblique to vein 6 aind. Fig. 185.—Xanthoptera botyoides, S- |. below vein 4 ; a terminal rufous shade narrowing to points below apex and above tornus ; a terminal series of minute black-brown lunules; cilia red-brown mixed with some whitish. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with red-brown; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish mixed with brown and with brown line through them ; the underside yellowish white irrorated with red- brown, a brown discoidal point. Hah. Mexico, Tabasco {H. H. Smith), 2 c5', 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; HoNDTJEAS (Dyson), 1 § type dinumeratalis, type f cJ albo- flava in Mus. Oxon.; Trinidad (Kaye), 6 c?, 3 $ ; Bk, Gtjiana (Rodway), 1 c?, Rockstone {Kaye), 2 (S; Brazil, Amazons, Parantins (Austen), 1 c?, Organ Mts., Tijuca (Wayner), 2 §, Exj). 18-20 millim. 5997. Xanthoptera aurifera. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 24.) Xanthoptera aurifera, Wlk. xii. 819 (1857). Xanthoptera nigrofimbria, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 316 (part.), nee Gruen. Xanthoptera tripuncta, Moscbl. Abh. Senck. Gres. xvi. p. 158 (1890). Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow; palpi blackish, pale at tips ; frons blackish at sides; ant
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