. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 82 ARCTIAD^. 1334. Bertholdia flavidorsata, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 21.) 2 • Head and thorax purplish brown ; palpi white in front; vertex of head tinged with white ; tegiilse edged with white ; patagia with slight white upper edge; legs white, the end of femora and greater part of tibiae brown, fore coxae with orange patches ; abdomen orange-yellow, the ventral surface white, a lateral series of spots and the anal tuft black. Pore wing purplish brown irrorat
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 82 ARCTIAD^. 1334. Bertholdia flavidorsata, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 21.) 2 • Head and thorax purplish brown ; palpi white in front; vertex of head tinged with white ; tegiilse edged with white ; patagia with slight white upper edge; legs white, the end of femora and greater part of tibiae brown, fore coxae with orange patches ; abdomen orange-yellow, the ventral surface white, a lateral series of spots and the anal tuft black. Pore wing purplish brown irrorated with black; a small antemedial yellow spot on vein 1; a large hyaline patch extending on costa from middle to near apex, its lower edge curved to vein 4 near termen, sinuous just beyond discocellulars, its outer edge irregularly sinuous and produced on vein 6, some black points on it on and near the veins and a larger point on vein 5 ; the apical area rufous and grey; a fine curved subterminal white line obsolete above vein 7, the area beyond it blackish. Hind wing hyaline, the inner area tinged with brown, the apical with fuscous. JIab. Bolivia, Songo {Garlepp), 1 $ type. Exp. 48 millim. Genus XANTHOPHiEINA, nov. Type, X. levis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to above vertex of liead, the first two joints fringed with hair in front; antennse of male bipeetinate, the branches dilated at extremity ; thorax and dorsal surface of abdomen towards base clothed with woolly hair; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4,5 from angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. *1335. Xanthophaeina levis. Fhcgopiera levis, Druce, H. (7) iii. p. 467 (1899).. Fig. 60.—XanthophcBina levis, (S • t* (^ . Head and thorax black-brown ; orange spots on 1st joint of palpi and just below antennae ; antennae pale, w
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