. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 416 !;. hanging head. Prolegs tipped \iith browu. Length 30 millim. Food-plant, Ficus pedunculata. Cocoon of silk and hair. PiqM. Cylindrical, flattened somewhat in front, dorsum slightly depressed behind thorax : abdominal segments fixed ; body punc- tured and wing-cases creased; cremaster with short hooks and surrounded by similar hooks on the last segment extending onto dorsum in transverse rows. Colour red-brown. Length 14 millim. 924. Lymire albipennis. (Plate XIV. fig. 20.) Echeta albipennis, Corr
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 416 !;. hanging head. Prolegs tipped \iith browu. Length 30 millim. Food-plant, Ficus pedunculata. Cocoon of silk and hair. PiqM. Cylindrical, flattened somewhat in front, dorsum slightly depressed behind thorax : abdominal segments fixed ; body punc- tured and wing-cases creased; cremaster with short hooks and surrounded by similar hooks on the last segment extending onto dorsum in transverse rows. Colour red-brown. Length 14 millim. 924. Lymire albipennis. (Plate XIV. fig. 20.) Echeta albipennis, Yer. Eegensb. xx. p. 117 (186fi); Eirby, Cat. Het. p. 197. 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark blue-grey ; palpi in front and on inner side, tegulae, shoulders, part of patagia, throat, and fore coxse orange ; rest of patagia white ; abdomen tinged v\ ith blue-green towards extremity, the ventral surface white. Fore wing white, with dark grey fascia on inner margin from near base to tornus. Hind wing semihyaline, the veins, costal area, and termen fuscous. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous and with a dark grey fascia on costa. Hah. Cuba (Ruiz), 1 2 • E:cp. 40 millim. Tyj^e f in Coll. Staudinsrer. Genus LOXOZONA, nov. Type, L. lanceolata. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; antenna bipectiuate, with moderate branches ; tibi;B with the spurs moderate ; build rather stout; abdomen with slight lateral tubercles on 1st segment anddorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell long; vein 2 from long before angle; 3 from angle; 4, 5 on a long stalk ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 absent or rudimentary. A. Fore wing black, with oblique white postmedial bands lanceolata. B. Fore wing red-brown, without band acuminata. 925. Loxozona lanceolata. Josia lanceolata, Wlk. ii. 307 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het. p.
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