. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XENorsEusTis. 455 Genus XENOPSEUSTIS. Type. Xenopscustis, Mejr. Traus. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 369 poecUastis Proboscis fully; developed ; palpi porrect, slender, extending to just beyond the frons which has a rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna of male ralher laminate and ciliated ; tliorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins '6 and 5 from near angl
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. XENorsEusTis. 455 Genus XENOPSEUSTIS. Type. Xenopscustis, Mejr. Traus. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 369 poecUastis Proboscis fully; developed ; palpi porrect, slender, extending to just beyond the frons which has a rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenna of male ralher laminate and ciliated ; tliorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins '6 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 ob- solescent from middle of discocellulars ; (>, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. * 4934. Xenopseustis pcecilastis. Xeiwpseustis pcecilastis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. (S. Head pale yellow faintly tinged with rufous ; palpi brown ; antenute rufous with slight whitish annuli; tegulse red-brown with pale yellow tips ; thorax red-browri, the tips of patagia and paired patches on mesothorax yellowish white ; pectus and legs red-brown mixed with yellowish white, the tarsi red-brow n ringed with white ; abdomen yellowish with red-brown bands, ventrally suffused with. Fig. 21S.—A'e7iopseustis pcecilastis, c?. |. rufous. Fore wing . red-brown ; a yellowish-white subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, with a patch just beyond it from cell to inner margin ; a yellowish-white antemedial band with irregularly sinuous edges ; a yellowish-white striga from middle of costa and line from submedian fold to inner margin followed by a point on vein 1; an oblique discoidal band strongly constricted at middle and with rounded extremities, a spot beyond it on costa and oblique band from below it to tornus with traces of a sinuous line between then ; an irregular subterminal maculate band from apex to termen at vein 3, its outer edg
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