. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XEOLITA. EnYXCnOLITA. 307 Geuus NEOLITA, nov. Tjpe, N. per stria fa. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, extending about twioe the length of liead and broadly fringed with hair above and below ; frons smooth with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; build slender; tibiaj smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex produced, tiie terinen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XEOLITA. EnYXCnOLITA. 307 Geuus NEOLITA, nov. Tjpe, N. per stria fa. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, extending about twioe the length of liead and broadly fringed with hair above and below ; frons smooth with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; build slender; tibiaj smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex produced, tiie terinen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of dis^cocellulars; 6, 7 on a long stalk; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 4725. Neolita perstriata, u. sp. d . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; palpi tinged with rufous and with slight brown streak at sides ; legs tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, the costal edge brownish ; a subbasal black point in cell; traces of a curved antemedial series of black points : a black point in middle of cell and another on discocellulars ; a. Fig. 129.—Xeolitapeniriata, J. \. diffused red-brown fascia from apex to lower angle of cell; a post- medial series of slight black points on the veins, strongly bent out- wards below eosta, then obliquely curved to inner margin; a terminal sei'les of black points. Hind wing yellowish white : a terminal series of black j)oints from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area faintly tinged with rufous. Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 2 (S type, Exp. 22 millim. Genus RHYNCHOLITA, nov. Type, R. atripuncta. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending about three times length of head and fringed with hair above and below, the ord moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antenute of ma
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