. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XTLOMCEA. 535 tuale ciliated ; thorax typically clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax wiih spreading crests; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen crenulate, oblique towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 frora near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole: 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescenr, from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalke
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XTLOMCEA. 535 tuale ciliated ; thorax typically clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax wiih spreading crests; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen crenulate, oblique towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 frora near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole: 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescenr, from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales. A. Fore wing dark cupreous brown l(etrina. B. Fore wing pale grey-brown didonea. 4265. Xylomcea laetrina. Apumea Icefi'i/ia, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 477, pi. 93. f. 21 (1898). Head and thorax brown mixed with greyish ; pro- and meta- thorax with paired black spots; patagia with black spots at middle and tips ; pectus grey; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing brown with a cupreous gloss; subbasal line black, oblique, from costa to vein 1, above which it is produced into a slight streak ; antemedial. Fig. 146.—Xylomcea lielrlna, (j". \. line indistinct, slightly defined by greyish on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved and angled inwards to whitish points on the veins ; claviform narrow, pale brown slightly defined by black; orbicular pale red-brown with faint whitish annulus defined by blackish, very oblique elliptical; reniform defined by blackish and with pale red-brown centre defined by blackish, some whitish points on its annulus at upper and lower edges ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, with some whitish on it at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, verj- oblique below vein 4; a diffused ob
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