. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. OXICESTA. 113 hair only, the metathorax with double crest, the patagia with curled-up hair at extremity; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, a large crest oa basal segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 fi-om 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; â 5 obsolescent from middle of discocel
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. OXICESTA. 113 hair only, the metathorax with double crest, the patagia with curled-up hair at extremity; tibiae fringed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, a large crest oa basal segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 fi-om 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; â 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base onlj-. A. Hind wing of male white with brown postmedial line and subterminal band geographica. B. Hind wing of male uniform fuscous brown chamoemces. 2212. Oxicesta geographica. Noctua geographica, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 167 (1787); Boisd. Ic. pi. 65. f. 5; bup. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 84. f. 5 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. vii. pi. 638 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. Bomhyx cm&tera, Scriba, Beitr. Ins. p. 176, pi. 7. f. o (1791) ; Esp. Schmett. 191. ff. 4-6(1796). Bombyx sericina, Hilbn. Beitr. ii. 1, pi. 4. f. Y (1827). Head and thorax yellowish white mixed with pale rufous; palpi at sides, tegulae at middle and outer edge of tegulae and patagia dark rufous ; abdomen yellowish white suffused with dark brown. Pore wing yellowish white, the basal and postmedial areas suffused with rufous, the latter extending to termen below veins 6 and 3; the basal part of medial area suffused with rufous extending to just before postmedial line beyond and below lower angle of cell; subbasal line oblique defined by white on inner side and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line double except towards costa, dark brown filled in with white, slightly angled outwards below costa. Fig. 28.â Oxicesta geographica, c?. \. and in cell and inwards below cell, then outwardly oblique, an oblique dark brown mark beyond it in cell; traces of a
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