. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SOS LITHOSIADiE. with paired black spots ; antenna? blackish except at base ; palpi with black spots on 1st and 2nd joints, tbe 3rd joint black ; pectus and legs grey-brown, tbe coxa? yellow; abdomen grey-brown, tbe dorsum black except towards base. Fore wing grey-brown, the veins, cell, submedian fold, and inner margin with slight grey streaks, vein 1 with a more prominent streak ; a small black spot defined by }'ellowish at base. Hind wing blackish brown, the base and costa somewhat paler. Hob. , Pahang (Hohnan-llu
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. SOS LITHOSIADiE. with paired black spots ; antenna? blackish except at base ; palpi with black spots on 1st and 2nd joints, tbe 3rd joint black ; pectus and legs grey-brown, tbe coxa? yellow; abdomen grey-brown, tbe dorsum black except towards base. Fore wing grey-brown, the veins, cell, submedian fold, and inner margin with slight grey streaks, vein 1 with a more prominent streak ; a small black spot defined by }'ellowish at base. Hind wing blackish brown, the base and costa somewhat paler. Hob. , Pahang (Hohnan-llunt), 1 $ ; Siam, Murk- Lek (Friihsforfer), 1 $ type; Philippines, Manila (Ledyard), 1 $, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 $ . Exp. 30 milliin. Genus Type. Axiop&niella, Strand, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii. p. 357 (1909) ... laymerisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely serrate and with long fasciculate cilia, of female almost simple ; tibia; moderately fringed with hair, the outer spurs short; retinaculum, in both sexes, a tuft of hair from median nervure. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. In key differs from Mazseras in both wings having vein 3 from close to angle of cell, 5 from just above angle. 20S3 b. Axiopseniella laymerisa. Lithosia laymerisa, Grand. Rev. Zool. 18G7, p. 274; Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. pi. 6. f. 33; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 347. Deiopeia occultans, Voll. Pollen & Van Dam, Rech. Faun. Madag. v. Ins. p. 13, pi. 2. f. 5 (1869). Head whitish with black bars on frons, between antennas and on vertex ; palp
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